PORT ANGELES — Two housemates at a Blue Mountain Road residence have been summoned to appear in Clallam County Superior Court on Friday to answer to drug possession charges stemming from an Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team investigation nearly 21/2 years ago.
Preston J. Smith, 40, and Sharon L. Knotek, 46, were charged Aug. 23 with possession of heroin and methamphetamine, respectively, in April 2010.
Investigators said Smith and Knotek shared a residence at 1690 Blue Mountain Road at the time.
Authorities said Smith had a total of $21,650 in warrants from Clallam County District Court, Clallam County Superior Court and Jefferson County Superior Court.
The arrest report gave the following account:
On April 19, 2010, the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team — or OPNET — conducted a surveillance of the residence and followed Smith as he drove away in a Jeep Cherokee.
Smith led a State Patrol trooper on a 1.6-mile high-speed pursuit on Blue Mountain Road before pulling over.
After Smith was arrested on the warrants, investigators obtained a search warrant and found heroin and marijuana in a room that Smith shared with another woman, and a broken glass pipe with heavy methamphetamine residue in the Knotek’s room.
Several glass pipes with methamphetamine residue were found in the common areas of the residence, court papers said.
“After examinations of the evidence had been completed and the case had been reviewed by the Clallam County prosecutor, Smith and Knotek were charged,” OPNET Supervisor Jason Viada said in a Monday news release.
Smith and Knotek are not in custody.
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