Accused drug dealer sentenced to state Department of Corrections

An accused methamphetamine dealer who spent years dodging the court system received multiple sentences in November to the state Department of Corrections. 

Judge Dan Wilson handed down a five-year sentence to Jeffrey Duane Portmann, 55, for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and another two years, suspended, for bail jumping in Flathead County District Court on Nov. 9. Although Portmann initially faced a drug distribution charge in the case, which was opened in 2017, he took a plea deal in September that saw prosecutors amend it. 

Wilson ordered the two sentences to run concurrently, and gave Portmann credit for 147 days of time served in the drug possession case and 145 days of time served in the bail jumping case. He also ordered Portmann to pay court fines and fees.