A Kalispell man has been given a 10-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to selling cocaine.

Joshua Boultinhouse, 32, originally was charged with a second felony count of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs and felony accountability to criminal possession with intent to distribute, but those charges were dismissed.

Boultinhouse sold nine grams of cocaine to a man in May 2011 for $700, saying the drugs belonged to 40-year-old John Busch of Eaton, Wash., and that Busch would be going back to Seattle to pick up ecstasy and more cocaine.

Busch was later apprehended as he got off a train in Whitefish. He had 14 grams of cocaine and 20 ecstasy pills.

In addition to his suspended sentence, Boultinhouse was ordered by District Judge Ted Lympus during the May 13 Flathead District Court hearing to pay a $1,000 fine and a $100 surcharge.

Busch pleaded guilty to felony criminal possession with intent to distribute and was sentenced to five years in jail and three years of probation for that conviction and previous convictions for felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor driving under the influence.