Published June 02. 2017 02:46PM
A Clearfield County man was sentenced to a county prison term on Thursday in Carbon County court by Judge Joseph J. Matika.
Joseph R. Logan Jr., 29, of DuBois, was sentenced to serve 3 to one day less 24 months in the county prison on a charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance - methamphetamine.He was arrested on Feb. 6, 2016, along Interstate 80 in Kidder Township by state police at Fern Ridge following a vehicle stop. A bag of the drug was found in his vehicle.Logan recently completed a five-month prison term imposed in Clearfield County on a drug charge and is currently on supervision for the next four years, he told the court.Defense counsel Hollianne Crystal Snyder, of the public defender's office, told the court her client was a drug user, not a dealer, and has mental health problems.Logan told Matika, "Going to jail allowed me to clear my head." He said he is addressing his addiction problem.In addition to the prison term, Matika ordered Logan to get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, zero tolerance for drug and alcohol use, supply a DNA sample and when released on parole render 75 hours of community service.He will begin the jail term at noon on June 16.