A Cambria County man pleaded guilty to a drug-dealing charge on Monday in Carbon County court and was immediately sentenced to a state prison term.

He was one of four defendants in pending drug-related cases to enter a guilty plea before Judge Joseph J. Matika.

I-80 stop

Daricus Marcel Holliday

, 34, of Johnstown, pleaded to one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, heroin, and a false identification charge.

Holliday was arrested on Aug. 17, 2016, along Interstate 80 in Kidder Township by state police at Fern Ridge following a vehicle stop.

Holliday is currently an inmate in the state correctional institution at Camp Hill, Cumberland County, serving a 3½- to 7-year term imposed in Cambria County on a drug charge.

Holliday told the court, “I’m not a bad person. I’m ready to take my punishment.”

Matika went along with a plea bargain made with the district attorney’s office, and sentenced him to serve one to four years in a state prison, concurrent with the Cambria County term. Holliday told Matika he has served 16 months of that sentence to date.

Matika also ordered him to get a drug and alcohol evaluation and follow any recommendation for treatment, zero tolerance for drug or alcohol use, supply a DNA sample, and when paroled render 100 hours of community service. On the false ID count Matika imposed a fine of $100.

Weatherly incident

Elio Angel Osorio-Soto

, 21, of Hazleton, pleaded to one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, heroin.

Soto was arrested by Weatherly police on Sept. 9 following a traffic stop at Carbon and First streets. Soto was a rear-seat passenger in the vehicle where heroin was found.

Matika told Soto under state sentencing guidelines he faces a minimum of between three and 12 months in prison at the time of sentencing.

Sentencing was deferred to January 2019.

Other pleas

Shawn Michael Murphy

, 39, currently an inmate in the county prison, pleaded to one count of criminal use of a communication facility.

He was arrested on May 30 by Lansford police after he sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant in a parking lot of the Panther Valley football stadium. The sale was arranged by cellphone.

Sentencing was deferred.

Joseph T. Gindhart Jr.

, 32, of Summit Hill, pleaded to one count each of possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was arrested on Aug. 18 by Lansford police in the 400 block of East Ridge Street. A charge of possession of a prohibited offensive weapon (a folding pocket knife) was dropped in a plea bargain.

Matika placed him on probation for a year on each count, running concurrently, and ordered he get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, pay court costs of about $1,000, pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on probation and render 50 hours of community service.

Whitney Marie Hibbler

, 29, of Lehighton, pleaded to one count of possession of drug paraphernalia with a charge of false ID dropped in a plea bargain.

She was arrested on Oct. 8 by Lansford police in the 300 block of West Abbott Street. Police responded to a report of a suspicious woman in the area and found Hibbler with drug paraphernalia on her.

Hibbler is currently an inmate in the county prison on a probation violation charge and is awaiting resentencing.

Matika placed her on probation for a year and ordered her to get a drug and alcohol evaluation, zero tolerance for drug or alcohol use, pay court costs of about $1,000, pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on probation and render 50 hours of community service when paroled.