Montana man charged with trafficking meth
KAYE THORNBRUGH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 5 months AGO
Kaye Thornbrugh is a second-generation Kootenai County resident who has been with the Coeur d’Alene Press for six years. She primarily covers Kootenai County’s government, as well as law enforcement, the legal system and North Idaho College. | April 27, 2021 1:00 AM
COEUR d’ALENE — A Montana man is being held on $100,000 bail after police said they found about 168 grams of meth in his vehicle.
Kevon L. Prather, 51, of Great Falls, is charged with trafficking in methamphetamine, a felony. Prosecutors also filed a persistent violator enhancement.
Idaho State Police stopped a Chevy Malibu with Montana plates for alleged traffic violations around 4 p.m. Thursday. Prather was a passenger in the vehicle, police said.
Police deployed a K-9, which allegedly gave a positive alert.
A search of the vehicle allegedly yielded two bags containing a substance that police determined to be meth.
One bag weighed about 82 grams, while the other weighed about 86 grams, police said.
Police arrested Prather at the scene.
In Idaho, trafficking between 28 and 200 grams of meth is a felony punishable by a minimum of three years in prison.
Judge Timothy Van Valin ordered Friday that Prather be held on $100,000 bail.
A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for early May.
Prather was previously convicted of two drug-related felonies, prosecutors said.
He was convicted of possession of dangerous drugs in Arizona in 2011 and of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs in Montana in 2016.
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