Opinion ID: 1290296
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Heading: The Evidence Supporting the Sentence

Text: Creps was sentenced to five and one-half years in the Nevada State Prison, suspended, probation for a period of five years conditioned upon payment of a fine, submission to warrantless searches, and a term of incarceration of sixty days in the Washoe County Jail. The trial judge apparently fashioned this sentence with the thought in the back of [his] mind that Creps was heavily involved in drug traffic. Creps argues that because there was no admissible evidence of other transactions in which he had participated and no evidence of any other contraband at his residence, the trial judge must have relied upon impalpable or highly suspect evidence, in violation of Silks v. State, 92 Nev. 91, 94, 545 P.2d 1159 (1976). However there was ample evidence properly admitted at the trial for the judge to have concluded that Creps, although a first offender, was more than a casual seller. The transaction for which he was prosecuted involved an ounce of cocaine with a street value of $1,800 and an offer to sell 10,000 amphetamines. Creps offered to do business on a regular basis. Upon this evidence, we find no abuse of discretion in the trial judge's sentence. Silks v. State, supra .