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WARREN -- A Boardman woman, the target of a postal inspectors' and Trumbull Action Group task force probe of a package delivery of Tramadol, pleaded guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday to two fourth-degree felonies.
Jasmine Stewart, 35, of Paxton Road, appeared with her attorney, Louis DeFabio, before Judge Andrew D. Logan, who will sentence her after a background investigation conducted by the probation office.
The woman was the subject of a July 2019 investigation in which postal inspectors made a controlled delivery to a Palmyra Road SW home in Warren. TAG officers, according to prosecutors, learned the woman purchased more than 1,000 tablets and redistributed them.
Stewart, who is free after posting a $5,000 bond, could face up to 36 months in prison. Her plea canceled a scheduled May 2 jury trial in the case.
In another drug-related case, Daisy E. Huston, 23, who is jailed in Mahoning County, pleaded guilty to a felony charge connected to a July 10, 2021, traffic stop in Liberty where she was accused of trying to destroy suspected narcotics.
Huston, of South Osborn Avenue, Youngstown, who could face up to 18 months in prison, was convicted of an attempted tampering with evidence charge and will be sentenced after undergoing a background investigation.
Logan set a $5,000 bond in the case, but Huston was still being held on a probation violation in Mahoning County.
In other drug-related cases this week in Trumbull County court:
• Jordan McClurg, 20, of North Road in Niles, was sentenced to the Northeast Ohio Alternative Community Program, a rehab stint that will begin his five-year probation on a conviction for charges of failure to comply to the order or signal of a police officer and aggravated possession of drugs. McClurg, who pleaded guilty to the charges in February, was arrested by Girard police after an April 8, 2021, incident;
• Sonya R. Frantz, 37, of North Water Street, Hermitage, Pa., was sentenced by Logan on Tuesday to a five-year probation beginning with a term at NEOCAP, after she failed a drug treatment in lieu of conviction program with the Trumbull County Probation Department. Frantz, who had pleaded guilty to possession of a fentanyl-related compound and aggravated possession of drugs charges in November, had tested positive for fentanyl since that date, according to a probation officer. She had entered a program where her charges would have been expunged if she had remained drug-free for a year.