GONZALES — A St. James Parish man was sentenced to a decade behind bars for dealing powder and crack cocaine.

On May 21, 2014, while conducting operations in a high crime area, narcotics agents with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office observed a car parked illegally in the roadway of a Gonzales neighborhood with multiple subjects standing around the vehicle.

Upon interviewing these subjects and learning of narcotics activity going on, agents obtained search warrants for the residence in which the vehicle was in front of, as well as for several parked vehicles in the driveway area of the residence.

During the search of one of the vehicles, agents located a loaded 9mm handgun, quantities of powder and crack cocaine, along with miscellaneous items commonly used for the packaging and sale of illegal narcotics.

Agents also observed a small wallet connected to the vehicle’s keys in the ignition, which contained an identification card belonging to Quinton Bolding.

Bolding was identified as one of the subjects at the residence. Bolding was subsequently arrested and booked into the Ascension Parish jail.

Bolding, 40, of Convent pleaded guilty July 10 to possession with intent to distribute a schedule II controlled dangerous substance and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Judge Thomas Kliebert ordered Bolding, sentenced Aug. 28, to serve 10 years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

Bolding was given credit for time served on each count.

The sentences are ordered to run concurrent with one another.

Bolding was prosecuted by assistant district attorney Shawn Bush.