IRONTON — More than a dozen people have been indicted by a Lawrence County grand jury. The lesser felony charges generally don’t end up with prison sentences.
IRONTON — More than a dozen people were indicted last week on drug possession charges. The felonies, under Ohio law, generally don’t end in prison time but end in treatment.
IRONTON â A Coal Grove woman who admitted cutting off an ankle monitor and swallowing suspected drugs was sentenced to nearly five years in prison Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
Kaye McKenzie, 32, of High Street, Coal Grove, pleaded guilty to two counts of tampering with evidence, felony vandalism and admitted violating community control sanctions.
Judge Andy Ballard sentenced her to two years in prison on each of the tampering charges and 11 months in prison for vandalism by cutting off the ankle monitor. The sentences are to run consecutively. McKenzie also was sentenced to six months in prison for violating community control sanctions, but that sentence is to run concurrent with the other sentences.