Repeat meth suspect sought

SANDPOINT — A Bonner County woman accused of selling methamphetamine is wanted on $300,000 in arrest warrants after she failed to show at her sentencing hearing earlier this month.

Leslie Rae O’Neil was to be sentenced in 1st District Court on June 7, according to the Idaho Supreme Court Data Repository.

The Bonner County Sheriff’s Criminal Interdiction Team is seeking the public’s help in locating O’Neil.

Those with knowledge of her whereabouts are asked to call (208) 263-5274 or 911.

O’Neil, 34, is a white female with brown hair and hazel eyes. She is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds.

O’Neil, also known as Leslie Rae Dorland, faced at least three years in prison and the prospect of five additional years, according to the terms of a plea agreement briefly outlined in the Idaho Statewide Trial Court Records System. The negotiated pleas would have resolved two meth cases and a probation violation in a third.

O’Neil was accused of delivery of a controlled substance in July of last year and possession with intent to distribute and trafficking the following month. She was also accused possession and destruction of drug evidence she managed to smuggle into the jail during a 2008 arrest, court records indicated.

O’Neil’s arrest on some the trafficking charges resulted from controlled drug buys involving a confidential informant fitted with a concealed listening device.

Some of the charges against O’Neil were amended or dismissed in exchange for guilty pleas, records show. Her bail was reduced from $100,000 to $40,000 during the plea negotiations.