Washington Man Sentenced in District Court

A 30-year-old man from Washington state was recently sentenced in Fourth Judicial District Court in Sheridan for a felony drug possession charge. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.

District Court Judge Darci Phillips accepted the terms of the plea agreement reached between the defendant and the State, and sentenced Anthony Brower to 3 to 6 years in prison for the charge of felony possession of a controlled substance – methamphetamine. The prison time was suspended in lieu of a split-sentence of 181 days in jail and three years of supervised probation. Brower was given 181 days of credit for time served of presentence confinement. Judge Phillips ordered Brower to pay $375 in court costs and assessments and $750 in public defender fees.

According to court documents, Brower was arrested on June 7, 2025, after dispatch received a report of a dispute in the parking lot of Taco Bell just before 6 pm. Shortly after officers with the Sheridan Police Department arrived on scene, it was determined that the fracas involved a vehicle with Washington plates. A female, Christina Morlan, was behind the wheel and Brower was in the passenger’s seat. A two-year-old child was in the backseat. A search of the vehicle yielded various drug paraphernalia and 36 grams of methamphetamine. The couple were transporting the methamphetamine from Washington state to Kansas. Morlan is scheduled to be sentenced in District Court on January 20.