Suspected heroin dealer arrested

The Northwest Drug Task Force nabbed a suspected heroin dealer in late February.

Christopher Brandon Eby, 30, was booked into the Flathead County Detention Center on Feb. 23 and charged with criminal distribution of dangerous drugs after he allegedly sold a gram of heroin to a confidential informant in September 2015 at a casino in Kalispell.

Eby allegedly gave the buyer the $280 worth of heroin that was concealed in the battery compartment of an electric razor.

Eby is set to be arraigned March 10.

Eby has already had one second chance for bad behavior. He was given a deferred three-year sentence for forgery and a concurrent, suspended six-month sentence for theft in August 2012 after he and his younger brother went on a theft spree.

The brothers stole two saws, five purses and their contents, two wallets, an iPod, a cellphone and a laptop, forged more than $4,500 worth of checks from 12 accounts and spent more than $150 on a stolen credit card between April and August 2007.

Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.