Two returned to jail

Two young men from Sisters who were convicted of dealing drugs are in even more trouble after allegedly contacting the informant who participated in their original arrest.

Nicholas Levine, 19, turnedhimself in to police on

Tuesday, March 16. Jeffrey Trainor, 19, has already been returned to jail.

On September 29, 1998, Levine and Trainor were arrested for possession and delivery of marijuana to a man in the Sisters City Park. A female juvenile with the two young men was arrested for conspiracy to deliver.

During the bust, Police recovered over one-half pound of marijuana, $360 in cash and a 1985 GMC "Jimmy," owned by Trainor, according to authorities at the time.

On March 3, Levine pleaded guilty and Trainor "no contest" to charges that they delivered the marijuana, according to Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan. Dugan said that Levine claimed to be the supplier and that Trainor was the driver.

The man they delivered the marijuana to had been drug and alcohol free for months, according to Dugan.

The buyer resented the fact that Levine and Trainor had been trying to protract his drug addiction. The man had been working with police to set up the buy, Dugan said.

Dugan asked that the informant not be identified in this newspaper story.

After the guilty and no contest pleas on March 3, Judge Alta Brady released the two young men until their sentencing hearing in April, according to Dugan. Aside from what Dugan called the "standard conditions," Brady forbade the two men from contacting the informant.

"Within two days of their release, the informant told us he had been contacted by both of these men and threatened," said Dugan.

Trainor was arrested again, and his sentencing date moved up from April to March 22.

Levine, who had been in touch with police, was taken into custody at the Sisters sheriff's station Tuesday morning, according to to deputies.