Area man garners prison sentence on drug, weapons offenses
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 12:40 PM PDT
BOISE — A New Plymouth man will spend more than eight years in prison after he was arrested in April by a police anti-narcotics unit.
U.S. attorney Tom Moss said last week that Brian Eugene Blaskey, 53, will serve 100 months in federal prison for drug and firearms offenses. Blaskey’s New Plymouth house was raided April 3 by law enforcement officers with the High Desert Task Force during a drug investigation.
Inside Blaskey’s residence, officers found three firearms and a small amount of methamphetamine for sale.
Blaskey, a convicted felon, pled guilty in federal court to unlawful possession of firearms, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James S. Otero July 1 at the Federal Courthouse in Boise.
Blaskey’s case was investigated by the High Desert Task Force, which consists of the Fruitland Police Department, the Payette County Sheriff’s Office and the Payette Police Department, the Malheur County Sheriff’s Office and the Ontario Police Department.
The case was also investigated by the Idaho State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“This case demonstrates that meth is a drug which scourges all of our communities, from our largest cities to our smallest towns,” Moss said.
me wrote on Aug 2, 2008 9:22 AM:
The federal government thinks drugs are more important than raping children.
Its sad - just sad. "