Man Accused of Possessing Over 31 Grams of Meth Pleads Guilty – GantNews.com

CLEARFIELD – A former DuBois man accused of possessing more than 31 grams of methamphetamine pleaded guilty Monday during Convergence Court.

The charges stem from an incident at a local hotel on January 20, 2023, in which police were asked to conduct a welfare check on a resident who was supposed to check out at 11 a.m. but failed to do so. They were worried because his phone was turned off.

When officers made contact with the man, Jack Anderson II, 37, they checked his record and learned he was wanted on parole. He was taken into custody.

Inside the room, they saw needle caps and broken straws “strewn throughout the room,” the probable cause affidavit states.

After obtaining permission from hotel employees, officers searched the room and reportedly found $1,775 in cash, numerous plastic bags containing a white crystallized substance, additional drug paraphernalia and scales.

At the police station, two of Anderson's backpacks were searched. Inside, they discovered additional bags containing the crystal substance, drug paraphernalia and $903 in cash, the criminal complaint states.

The crime lab determined the substance was methamphetamine and the total weight was 31.14 grams, the report said.

He was sentenced by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman to a term of 24 months to four years in state prison for felony possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He will also serve a 12-month suspended sentence.

This sentence is consecutive to his current state prison sentence of two and a half to five years, which he received in November for a probation violation in a case in Jefferson County.