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A Houghton county man will be serving 10 months in the County Jail after being sentenced on narcotics charges.
Charles Knuckles of South Range was given one year of jail time and credited for 70 days of time served.
Knuckles was arrested in February for selling morphine and hydromorphone out of his girlfriend’s apartment on Stanton Avenue.
Circuit Court Judge Charles Goodman sentenced Knuckles for Delivery/Manufacture of a Controlled Substance, Maintaining a Drug House and Attempted Possession of a Controlled Substance.
When brought to jail, corrections officers discovered more than fifteen pills taped to his inner thigh.
Knuckles had stated that he was startled at the time of his arrest and didn’t mean to smuggle the drugs into the county jail.
During his statement to the judge, Knuckles said that the hardest thing about incarceration so far was missing his daughter’s birthday.
However, Judge Goodman delivered a powerful message to the defendant, saying “I can give you all sorts of names of young people who are missing their child’s birthdays because of drug use because they’re now dead. Somebody sold them something, and they used it, and they died. And they are missing their children’s birthdays and their children are missing a mother or a father.”
In addition to jail sentence, the judge also added 2 years of probation to begin once he is released.
