DILLINGHAM: At the Dillingham court Monday, an Oregon man had his Alaska probation revoked from a 2009 Naknek drug case and was sentenced to the remaining 22 months of prison of his original sentence.
Casey Derrenger, 36, was busted for selling marijuana, Ritalin, and Adderol to an undercover WAANT investigator at the Fisherman’s Bar in June 2009. Two months later, Derrenger pleaded guilty to reduced charges. He was sentenced to 24 months in jail, but had 22 of those months suspended, provided he successfully completed four years of supervised probation.
He didn't.
Derrenger was arrested twice in Oregon, once for harassment in 2012, and again in 2013. In the latter case, police had clocked him driving 85 MPH into oncoming traffic. The officers reported that not only was he drunk behind the wheel, but he also had his two children in the car.
After he served six months in Oregon jail for those crimes, probation officers in Alaska asked that he be transferred back to Alaska to serve at least some of his 2009 sentence.
On Monday, a probation officer representing the state noted that Derrenger had consistently "minimized" his crimes and had performed extremely poorly under supervision.
Judge Patricia Douglass heard from the state and Derrenger's defense attorney before choosing to impose the full 22 months of jail time. He was in custody and was expected to begin his sentence immediately.