Prison is ordered in meth case

SANDPOINT — A southwestern Bonner County man is receiving a four-year prison sentence for cooking methamphetamine.

Leuis Mark Blood will have to serve at least two years of the sentence before becoming eligible for release onto probation, according to the terms of the sentence imposed by 1st District Judge Steve Verby.

Blood was also fined $10,000 and ordered, along with two other accomplices, to pay $3,700 to cover cleanup costs for the rudimentary drug labs found in their homes and laboratory analysis of the drug evidence.

Blood, 44, described his arrest as a blessing during his sentencing hearing on Monday.

“I am happy that this happened because I am off drugs,” said Blood.

Blood and his former neighbors on Bandy Road — Shauna Lynn Crump and Brandon Neil Crump — were each charged with trafficking meth and felony injury to a child after Bonner County sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at their respective homes in August.

The child endangerment charges were brought because the toxic drug labs were in places that the Crumps’ six children could have easily accessed.

In separate agreements with the prosecution, charges against all three suspects were amended in exchange for admissions of guilt.

Shauna Crump’s trafficking charge was downgraded to simple possession and the child endangerment charge was dismissed. The trafficking charges against Brandon Crump and Blood were amended to attempted manufacturing and the endangerment charges were also dismissed.

Shauna Crump, 32, was given a suspended two- to four-year prison sentence and put on probation when she was sentenced last November. Her 33-year-old husband is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 6, according to court documents.