Hope trio is indicted on drug charges

SANDPOINT — A Bonner County grand jury has indicted three people from Hope for selling cocaine, marijuana and other drugs.

The indictments remain sealed, although bench warrants in the cases identify the suspects and the criminal charges pending against them.

Bree Ann Church is charged with three counts of delivery of marijuana, delivery of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and delivery of cocaine.

Morgon Kenney is charged with three counts of delivery of cocaine, two counts of delivery of MDMA and two counts of delivery of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Chuck Dean Mack is charged with trafficking marijuana and six counts of delivery of marijuana.

The dates of the alleged drug transactions were not listed in case files, although the Idaho Supreme Court Data Repository indicates Mack and Kenney committed the offenses on Aug. 8.

The case against Church is still listed as sealed in the data repository.

First District Judge Steve Verby issued $100,000 bench warrants for all three suspects on Aug. 9.

Mack, 52, is scheduled to enter pleas to the charges on Sept. 7, according to  the court documents. He remains jailed.

Church, 27, posted a property bond to secure her release from the Bonner County Jail.

Kenney, 24, remains jailed despite an effort by his defense attorney, Michael Waldrup, to have his bail reduced.

Waldrup argued his client has no prior felony offenses and described Kenney as a drug addict who was trying to support his habit. Deputy Prosecutor Shane Greenbank objected to the defense’s motion and Verby sustained Kenney’s bail, court records indicate.

Some of the alleged transactions took place in the parking lot of a bar in Clark Fork, according to documents in the Kenney case.

Kenney is scheduled to be tried in 1st District Court in December.

Mack was arrested last month on allegations that he arranged to sell a quarter pound of marijuana and four grams of hashish on July 29. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing in that case.