Bryan K. Doller

A Butler man was sentenced to more than six years in state prison in Butler County Court after being charged in three heroin distribution cases.

Bryan K. Doller, 36, was sentenced to 6½ to 13 years in a state correctional facility by President Judge Thomas Doerr. He was given 336 days time served credit and ordered to pay court costs.

Doller’s attorney, Tyler Deluco, argued that the three incidents, while happening in the same week, were all part of a “course of conduct,” where police used the same confidential informant to purchase the drugs from the same location with Doller, and asked that the charges all run concurrently as one offense.

District Attorney Richard Goldinger said because of Doller’s seven prior convictions, the sentence was appropriate.

Doller was on parole on a previous drug conviction in 2006, after pleading guilty to more than 60 charges stemming from a 10-month investigation by the state attorney general’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation, along with state and area police, called “Operation Front Men,” which arrested two dozen county residents in November 2005. He was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison followed by fiveyears of probation for his role in the cocaine ring, and had been released from state prison in 2017,

Goldinger said that parole hit could net Doller another 15 years in prison on top of Thursday’s sentence.

“This is another case where we are sending a message that we will not tolerate any more drug dealers coming into our community and selling heroin,” he said.

For more about the Doller case, read Sunday's Butler Eagle.