A Cody man caught with a significant amount of methamphetamine and a stolen revolver last fall will spend the next seven years in federal prison.

Erik Sehnert, 39, recently received a 90-month prison sentence for felony counts of possessing methamphetamine with intent to deliver it and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime.

U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson also ordered Sehnert to serve three years of supervised probation once he gets out of prison.

When Cody Police Officer Blake Stinson pulled Sehnert over for a turning violation on Oct. 18, the officer apparently suspected he might find something more serious.

According to an affidavit from Stinson filed in state court, Cody police knew Sehnert had previously overdosed on heroin. Further, officer Stinson said the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) had information that Sehnert was selling both methamphetamine and heroin in the Cody area; according to federal prosecutors, Sehnert sold 5 grams of meth to a DCI informant in the Cody area last June. (A felony count related to that alleged sale was dismissed as part of a deal that included Sehnert pleading guilty to the two other charges.)

Stinson stopped Sehnert when he failed to use his turn signal before switching lanes on Sheridan Avenue; police also found that Sehnert hadn’t had a valid driver’s license since 2007.

Although he did not appear to have any alcohol in his system, Sehnert struggled with his sobriety tests and appeared nervous, Stinson wrote.

Because of Sehnert’s “unusual behavior, driving pattern and past drug information,” Stinson said he summoned Powell Police Officer Danny Hite and his drug detecting K-9, Niko.

Niko alerted to the scent of drugs on the driver’s side of Sehnert’s vehicle, Stinson wrote.

Inside the 1993 Nissan, police found three handguns — including a Ruger Blackhawk revolver that reportedly was stolen in a burglary in Park County. (Sehnert told authorities he had not stolen the gun and had bought it from someone else, said John Powell, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.)

Police found one of the guns between the two front seats, the Ruger underneath the driver’s seat and the third in a bag. Also in that bag was a travel mug containing around 34 grams of meth — packaged in 13 individual Ziploc bags — and a small Ziploc bag of heroin, Stinson’s affidavit says.

Based on rates typically paid by DCI, the drugs would have easily had a street value of several thousand dollars.

The Cody and Powell police officers who searched the truck found $1,400 in cash in Sehnert’s wallet. Whether the money and the firearms are returned to Sehnert depends on whether state prosecutors decide to seek their forfeiture.

Judge Johnson recommended that Sehnert — who’s been behind bars since his Oct. 18 arrest — serve out his prison sentence in Englewood, Colorado. In his May 13 order, the judge also recommended that Sehnert be placed in a 500-hour drug abuse program.

Sehnert will be barred from using drugs or alcohol, be subject to random testing and must receive drug and mental health treatment once he’s out on supervised release. He must also pay a $200 assessment and $1,000 in community restitution.

This isn’t the first time Sehnert faced allegations of selling drugs in Park County. In 2009, he was charged with delivering marijuana, though a special prosecutor from Big Horn County ultimately offered a deal in which the felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.