Johnson pleads to heroin charge

COEUR d'ALENE - A North Idaho businessman and former Post Falls Chamber of Commerce board member has pleaded guilty to felony heroin possession, Kootenai County court records show.

Adam M. Johnson, 27, of Coeur d'Alene, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 6 by 1st District Court Judge John P. Luster. Johnson faces up to seven years in prison.

Johnson pleaded guilty earlier this month to the charge. A second count, for misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, was dismissed as part of the plea.

Johnson was arrested on the drug charges in April.

Johnson helped found the telecommunications business Convertec in 2004. It sold communications and technology services.

Johnson also was charged in Kootenai County in connection with a shooting in downtown Coeur d'Alene in December 2009.

He was the alleged shooter in that confrontation, which sent two Moses Lake, Wash., men to the hospital.

In that case, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail for carrying a concealed weapon while under the influence, a misdemeanor.

A grand jury decided after the shooting that Johnson would not stand trial on felony charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery.