Hearings set in NE pot bust

SANDPOINT — Pretrial hearings are pending for two Idaho men were arrested on marijuana trafficking allegations in Connecticut, according to court documents.

Travis Buck Engle and Errol Dixon Clark are each charged with one count of selling more than a kilogram of the drug and one count of conspiracy to sell the drugs. Pretrial hearings in their cases are set for Jan. 11, 2019, according to Litchfield Judicial District court records.

Engle, 38, is free on $500,000 bond, court documents indicate. Clark, 50, is being held at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional institution in Suffield, according to the Connecticut State Department of Correction’s website. Clark’s bail is set at $500,000.

Engle, the director of local performance troupe, and Clark, a Sandpoint real estate agent, were arrested on Nov. 11 by the Connecticut Statewide Narcotics Task Force on Nov. 11 in New Hartford. Clark was found to be in possession of 130 pounds of shrink-wrapped cannabis and several pounds of extract of THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana, according a news story published by the Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury.

It was regarded as one of the more sizable marijuana busts in the state’s northwest corner.

Engle is accused of growing the pot in Oregon and selling it in underground markets on the East Coast with the help of Clark, who is described in the reporting as a delivery driver.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.