A Columbia Falls man finally has been sentenced after his failure to turn in information for a pre-sentence investigation report delayed the hearing by nearly two months.

Joshua James McCormick, 20, was sentenced Feb. 13 by Flathead District Judge Heidi Ulbricht to five years, suspended, with the Montana Department of Corrections on a felony criminal distribution of dangerous drugs conviction.

McCormick previously pleaded guilty to the charge for selling a small amount of marijuana and a .40-caliber handgun to a defendant already charged in a stolen gun case. The defendant purchased the gun and drugs from McCormick to aid law enforcement after his arrest.

In exchange for McCormick’s guilty plea, another pair of cases charging him with another drug distribution charge and burglary were both dismissed. The drug charge stemmed from an allegation that McCormick was caught with two tenths of a pound of marijuana.

The burglary charge stemmed from the theft of $1,250 in cash, 16 guns, seven scopes and several other items with a total value of more than $16,000 from Anything Pawn Shop. McCormick’s participation in the crime eventually led to his conviction on a federal charge of possession of stolen firearms.

Ulbricht set McCormick’s new sentence to run concurrently with his sentence in the federal case — five years of probation, six months of home arrest and 200 hours of community service, handed down Sept. 11, 2013, in U.S. District Court.