A former Flathead Valley man with a criminal past here was arraigned on felony drug charges Thursday in Flathead County District Court.

Kyle Matthew Egland, 30, of Addy, Washington, is facing two charges of possession with intent to distribute dangerous drugs, allegedly methamphetamine and heroin. He entered a not guilty plea.

Egland is being held in the Flathead County Detention Center on $30,000 bond.

According to a court filing, a Kalispell Police Department agent learned from a confidential informant on March 29, 2018, that Egland would be arriving in Flathead County soon to distribute meth and heroin.

On March 30, 2018, agents from the Northwest Drug Task Force located a vehicle in Lakeside that matched the description provided by the informant. After agents stopped the vehicle, they identified the driver as Egland.

After towing the vehicle to a secure location and getting a search warrant, a search revealed about 1.65 ounces of heroin and nearly one-half pound of meth.

Egland faces a total of 40 years in the Montana State Prison if he is convicted on both counts.

Egland previously served prison time in Montana after he was convicted of a variety of crimes in 2012.

According to a previous Daily Inter Lake story, Egland was sentenced in Flathead District Court to five years in jail and eight years of probation on felony charges in four cases.

He previously pleaded guilty to four felony charges connected to criminal activity between March 2010 and October 2011.

Egland was convicted of two felony charges of theft — one for stealing a 2010 Subaru Legacy from a rental car lot at Glacier Park International Airport on Sept. 13, 2011, and another for burglarizing Gardner’s RV and Trailer Center on the night of Oct. 26, 2011.

He also was convicted of a felony charge for participating in the sale of Oxycontin to a confidential informant March 2, 2010, plus a felony charge of issuing a bad check for writing 10 bad checks for a total of more than $1,000 between April 30, 2011, and May 17, 2011.

For each of the theft charges and the drug charge, Egland was sentenced to five years in jail and five years suspended, all to run concurrently. He was sentenced to an additional three years suspended on the charge for writing bad checks, to run consecutive to the other three sentences.

In addition, Egland was ordered to pay more than $3,200 in restitution to the RV dealership. Egland also must pay restitution for the bad checks.

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