Duo jailed on drug charges

SANDPOINT — Two Bonner County men were arrested Friday on felony drug charges following an undercover sting operation.

Timothy Nicholas Belville and Adrian Charles Needs are charged with delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and felony possession of marijuana.

Judge Lori Meulenberg sustained the men’s bail at $50,000 on Monday and appointed public defenders to represent them, court records indicate.

Belville and Needs, 22 and 20, respectively, are accused of selling pot to a confidential informant who was working with an undercover sheriff’s deputy, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The Bonner County sheriff’s Criminal Interdiction Team set their sights on the defendants after receiving tips that the two were selling pot, the affidavit said. The two were arrested driving away from a drug deal in which an ounce of pot was sold to the informant at a gravel pit west of Dover.

More than 3 ounces of pot was recovered during the arrest, the affidavit alleges.