RYAN LAFAVE

IRON MOUNTAIN — An Iron Mountain man pleaded guilty Monday to drug charges in Dickinson County Circuit Court.

Ryan M. Lafave, 22, pleaded to two charges of the delivery or manufacture of the controlled substance methamphetamine, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Lafave could have served as many as 60 years in prison for selling crystal methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of Iron Mountain High School property.

But in exchange for his guilty plea, Dickinson County Prosecuting Attorney Lisa Richards agreed to reduce the charge of delivery on school or library property as well as forego filing a habitual offender-second offense notice for a potential felony conviction in North Dakota.

Richards also will not reauthorize charges in district court for the possession of methamphetamine and Suboxone, a brand name for buprenorphine.

Richards had no objection to Lafave’s participation in the prison’s alternative incarceration program, or boot camp, after serving 36 months of his sentence.

According to the criminal complaints, Lafave sold a gram and a 1/4 gram of methamphetamine to a confidential informant during two controlled transactions in February and March, respectively. He was arrested by the KIND drug team April 2.

Lafave will be sentenced July 22.