SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man will serve 14 to 36 months in state prison for drug charges in two cases: one related a methamphetamine lab and the other related to selling a prescription pill.
Rory D. Ford, 36, was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court before President Judge John Pavlock. He pleaded guilty June 24 to a charge of conspiracy-criminal use of a communication facility in one case and a charge of conspiracy-operating a methamphetamine lab in the second case.
Ford was also ordered to pay a lab fee of $1,760 for the meth lab case, as the Clandestine Lab Team had to clean up the lab. In the other case, he was ordered to pay $40 for “buy” money and a $113 lab user fee.
Ford’s attorney, Christopher Martini, noted that Ford had no criminal history or supervision history prior to these charges.
Court records filed at the time of Ford’s arrest on July 19, 2018, indicated that at 10:40 p.m. July 17, 2018, at their 195 Lower Portage Road home, Ford and Patricia A. Larson, 33, conspired to sell one Subutex pill in exchange for $40. The sale was reportedly arranged via cell phone.
Then, on July 19, detectives with the McKean County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at the residence and found an active rolling methamphetamine lab, Shaffer reported at that time.
Agents with the PA State Attorney General and PA State Police Clandestine Lab team were brought in to process the scene, and the Port Allegany Ambulance and Fire Department were on standby.
Larson was sentenced Aug. 1 to a prison term of three to seven years for her role in the incidents.
