A Barnum man was charged with three counts of felony fifth-degree sale of marijuana earlier this month while he was on probation for the same crime.
Andrew Gary Jennissen, 24, was charged Oct. 7 after people working with the Cloquet Police Department made three different controlled purchases of the drug from him in August and October. Jennissen was on probation at the time for felony possession of marijuana and a hallucinogen.
When defense attorney Thomas Skare asked that Jennissen be reinstated on probation and released from jail during the Oct. 7 hearing, Judge Robert Macaulay denied the request, setting bail at $20,000 bond/$2,000 cash on the new charges and ordering that Jennissen be held without bond on the probation violation.
"Obviously, possessing marijuana would be a violation of probation in itself," Macaulay said. "You are on probation for the sale of controlled substances, and now there are these new violations."
An omnibus hearing for Jennissen was waived on Monday, and a settlement conference is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 31.
