Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Cocaine dealer gets prison time

By TERRY SMITH
Express Staff Writer

Roberto Bernabez

     A 30-year-old Hailey man has been sentenced to six years in prison for helping set up a cocaine deal in Hailey in 2007.

     Judge Robert J. Elgee ordered prison time Monday for Roberto Bernabez, who pleaded guilty in November to distribution of cocaine, even though he said then that he didn’t sell the cocaine but only arranged the deal.

     The sentence requires that Bernabez spend two years behind bars before he is eligible for parole. Elgee gave Bernabez credit for nearly seven months already spent in Blaine County jail.

     The sentence was less than the term recommended by the Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which asked that Bernabez receive a three-year fixed and four-year indeterminate sentence.

     Bernabez was arrested on July 5 by Hailey police on a warrant from a Blaine County grand jury indictment.



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