Hungry Horse man pleads guilty to drug possession

A 24-year-old Hungry Horse man was given a three-year deferred sentence after he pleaded guilty to possession of clonazepam, an anti-anxiety medicine.

Nikolas Winters, who lived in Williston, N.D., at the time but grew up in Hungry Horse, was arrested on July 21, 2012, around 12:30 a.m. after sheriff’s deputies responded to a disturbance at the Zip Trip Store in Hungry Horse.

Witnesses at the store said Winters had picked a fight with another man and then took off. A deputy stopped Winters on his way to Columbia Falls. He was arrested and transported to the Flathead County Detention Center, where a search turned up 30 clonazepam tablets.

Winters was charged with felony possession of dangerous drugs and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Following a plea agreement signed on July 25, Winters pleaded guilty to the drug charge, and the disorderly conduct charge was dismissed.

Flathead County District Court Judge Robert Allison sentenced Winters on Oct. 3.