The owner of a Bigfork bar has pleaded guilty to a series of drug distribution charges after selling cocaine out of the business.

Travis Martin, 33, of Bonner, entered the pleas April 17 in Flathead District Court to four counts of felony criminal distribution of dangerous drugs.

Martin sold nine grams of cocaine during three transactions at the Rendezvous Lounge on Aug. 30 and 31, 2012, then another ounce on Sept. 13, 2012, for at total of $1,860.

On Sept. 12, 2012, Martin introduced the buyers to 35-year-old Phillip Sowder of Kalispell, allegedly his source for the drug. Sowder then sold the buyers another ounce of cocaine for $1,200 at the Rendezvous Lounge.

A search of Sowder’s home later turned up more than 64 grams of cocaine, 65 marijuana plants in a grow operation and “a large sum of U.S. currency.”

When he is sentenced on June 5, Martin now faces between two years and four consecutive life terms as well as a fine of up to $200,000.

Sowder pleaded guilty in January to felony counts of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs and criminal manufacture of dangerous drugs.

A second felony count of drug distribution was dismissed.

He was sentenced Feb. 27 by District Judge Ted Lympus to 10 years with the Montana Department of Corrections followed by an additional 10 years suspended. He also was ordered to pay a $400 public defender fee.