Kalispell man sentenced to five years in jail

A 22-year-old Kalispell man was sentenced Thursday in Flathead District Court to five years in jail and eight years of probation on felony charges in four cases.

Kyle Egland previously had pleaded guilty to four felony charges connected to criminal activity between March 2010 and October 2011.

Egland was convicted of two felony charges of theft — one for stealing a 2010 Subaru Legacy from a rental car lot at Glacier Park International Airport on Sept. 13, 2011, and another for burglarizing Gardner’s RV and Trailer Center at night on Oct. 26, 2011.

He also was convicted of a felony charge of accountability to the criminal distribution of dangerous drugs for participating in the sale of Oxycontin to a confidential informant on March 2, 2010, plus a felony charge of issuing a bad check for writing 10 bad checks for a total of more than $1,000 between April 30, 2011, and May 17, 2011.

For each of the theft charges and the drug charge, Egland was sentenced to five years in jail and five years suspended, all to run concurrently. He was sentenced to an additional three years suspended on the charge for writing bad checks, to run consecutive to the other three sentences.

In addition, Egland was ordered to pay more than $3,200 in restitution to the RV dealership. Jan Vondrich, who also pleaded guilty to taking part in the burglary, will be ordered to help pay that restitution when he is sentenced on July 5. Egland also must pay restitution for the bad checks.