On May 25, a Columbia man charged with a couple of felonies after a traffic stop was conducted on Highway 240 and 290th Road in Slater pleaded guilty in court.

A report from a Saline County deputy says on April 24, Brandon Darrell Pena identified himself as someone else and a syringe with a brownish liquid he discarded off his person tested positive for methamphetamine. The deputy also located several credit cards with different names and a forged male’s identification card. Pena also signed several official documents as somebody else at the sheriff’s office.

Court documents say Pena pleaded guilty to felonies for trafficking in stolen identities and forgery and a drug-related misdemeanor.

At Saline County Circuit Court, the judge sentenced Pena to three years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on each of the felony charges- with the sentences to run concurrently; and 15 days in jail on the misdemeanor, with credit for time served.