James Folsom, Jr., 28, of Dillingham, will be sentenced to 1-3 years in prison at hearing set for March.
DILLINGHAM: A Dillingham man has been convicted of attempting to deal heroin in the village of Koliganek.
James Folsom Jr., 28, who goes by Jim Bob, was busted in a Koliganek home in November 2012 with 4.5 grams of black tar heroin hidden inside a fake soda can. That amount represented 45 individual doses and was worth an estimated $4500 at street value.
As part of a plea deal, state prosecutors reduced the original class A felony charge of second degree misconduct involving a controlled substance to an attempted charge, a class B felony. Folsom entered a guilty plea last Friday at the Dillingham court.
Through his attorney Rex Butler, Folsom sought a suspended imposition of sentence, or SIS, which would have allowed him to serve probation and keep the felony off his record. According to the prosecutor, Folsom’s prior criminal record prevented that option.
The 28-year-old has been on $7,500 bail release since his 2012 arrest. He faces between one and three years in prison on the conviction. A open sentencing hearing before Judge Daniel Schally is scheduled for March 6 in Dillingham.