A convicted felon arrested last March after police seized more than $80,000, guns and a stockpile of six different kinds of drugs from his home and a storage unit was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Robert Jones also ordered Douglas Corbus to serve five years of supervised release when he completes his sentence. Corbus, 43, pleaded guilty last October to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sax recommended Corbus receive a 14-year sentence, citing his convictions in Clackamas, Clark and Multnomah Counties between 2000 and 2011 that include assault, burglary and delivery of a controlled substance.
In a sentencing memorandum, Sax noted that investigators seized 17 pounds of marijuana, 1 1/2 pounds of methamphetamine, at least one pound of heroin, about 21 ounces of psilocybin mushrooms, an ounce of cocaine and 3,300 oxycodone pills from his Milwaukie-area home and a storage locker under Corbus’ name in Clackamas last March.
Sax said after court that police also seized more a dozen 250 milliliter bottles of anabolic steroids.
The seizure led to the arrests of Corbus and Kaylena Jo Millard, 41, who lived with Corbus at the single-story house in the 6300 block of Southeast King Road.
Millard is accused of conspiracy to commit unlawful delivery of heroin, methamphetamine and OxyContin as well as unlawful delivery of heroin, methamphetamine and OxyContin in Clackamas County Circuit Court from the March arrest.
Millard is alleged to be part of a “drug-delivery network” that continued after her arrest, court documents said. She has since been indicted on additional counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine stemming from allegedly selling the drugs to police informants in August and September while on pretrial release.
In Corbus’ case, defense attorney John Storkel recommend that the judge sentence Corbus to 10 years in prison because he accepted responsibility for his offenses and the length of the term reflected the seriousness of the crimes, he said in a sentencing memo.
Corbus has a supportive family, has worked as a tree cutter for six years and plans to get back into landscaping when released from prison, Storkel said.
“It is possible to look at the paper record and not give this person another chance,” he said. “However, based on my interaction, I believe that if the Court grants him leniency it will result in Douglas Corbus having a final chance at being a productive member of the community.”
But Sax said members of the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force had been receiving tips about Corbus selling drugs since at least the beginning of 2014.
According to search warrant affidavits, a confidential informant told investigators about buying methamphetamine from Corbus last winter and claimed Corbus got large shipments of an estimated $80,000 in pills.
Investigators got a search warrant for Corbus’ property and vehicles after they secretly watched him sell meth to an informant twice, the affidavit said. During the raid, police found Corbus with $1,760 in his pants pocket and a bag in his pickup with meth, cocaine and heroin and $5,840.
Water bottles with liquid inside labeled “poison,” blister packs of pseudoephedrine, bottles of iodine and PH test strips were among items seized from Corbus’ garage – ingredients for a meth lab, the affidavit said. The informant also told police about the storage unit where more cash and drugs were found.
After he was arrested, Corbus wouldn’t tell investigators what was in the storage unit, the affidavit said.
“How bad is the storage unit?” an investigator asked Corbus.
“It’s going to get me more time,” Corbus replied.
— Everton Bailey Jr.
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