BA MAN GETS PRISON TERM IN DRUG CASE

A Broken Arrow man was sentenced Thursday to 21 months in prison for
possessing about 55 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute.

Richard B. Allen will also have to serve three years' supervised release
and pay a $4,000 fine, according to the punishment meted out by U.S. Chief
District Judge Terry C. Kern.

Allen was indicted Sept. 9 on a charge of possession of a controlled
dangerous substance with intent to distribute. At an Oct. 14 evidentiary
hearing, Kevin Ottwell of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs said law enforcement officials were tipped off in late September 1996
that Allen was trafficking in marijuana between Texas and Oklahoma.

When he pleaded guilty Oct. 20, Allen said that in October 1996 he went to
Midland, Texas, and picked up 55 pounds of marijuana to bring back to Tulsa
for someone else. Allen said he probably would have received about $1,500
in cash for his courier work.