(Spencer)– A Spencer man will spend the next two decades behind bars for providing methamphetamine to a minor.
32-year-old Melvin Hoyt Roberts was sentenced this week in Clay County District Court on two counts of delivery of a controlled substance to a minor…each a class “D” felony. Each count is punishable by up to 25 years in prison, but Roberts will serve the two terms concurrently.
According to Assistant Clay County Attorney Mike Houchins, the charges stem from an investigation by Spencer Police in November, 2002 into the selling of meth to minors by Roberts. A few months later, in January, 2003, a young Spencer girl was taken to the hospital after overdosing on meth. Even though specific evidence was lacking, police believed Roberts sold the juvenile meth shortly before her overdose.
Roberts was arrested in April in Mankato, Minnesota on a Clay county warrant. He was extradited to Spencer in June.
The Spencer Police were assisted in the investigation by the Clay County Attorney’s Office and the Department of Human Service.
(Story from Danielle Hitchings of sister station KDWD Hot 100 in Spencer).
