MONROE - A 21-year-old woman convicted of smuggling a Bic lighter and cigarettes into the women's cell block of the Green County Jail last September was sentenced to prison Thursday, July 25.
Sara Marie Lawrence is ordered to spend a year and a half in prison on a Class I felony conviction of delivering illegal articles to an inmate. After her incarceration, she is sentenced to two more years on extended supervision.
Dismissed but "read in" to her sentence were misdemeanor charges of cocaine possession, encouraging a probation or parole violation and violating state/county institution laws. Judge James Beer was able to consider these "read in" charges in his sentencing of Lawrence.
Lawrence is convicted of wrapping the lighter and a few cigarettes in plastic wrap and concealing them in her vagina to get the contraband past jail guards.
The plan worked until guards got wind of cigarette smoke coming from the women's cell block.
Her co-conspirator in the smuggling, Jillian Ann Gowen, 27, was sentenced to two years in prison and two years on parole for a series of convictions from 2012, including encouraging Lawrence to sneak the items into jail.
- Katjusa Cisar
Sara Marie Lawrence is ordered to spend a year and a half in prison on a Class I felony conviction of delivering illegal articles to an inmate. After her incarceration, she is sentenced to two more years on extended supervision.
Dismissed but "read in" to her sentence were misdemeanor charges of cocaine possession, encouraging a probation or parole violation and violating state/county institution laws. Judge James Beer was able to consider these "read in" charges in his sentencing of Lawrence.
Lawrence is convicted of wrapping the lighter and a few cigarettes in plastic wrap and concealing them in her vagina to get the contraband past jail guards.
The plan worked until guards got wind of cigarette smoke coming from the women's cell block.
Her co-conspirator in the smuggling, Jillian Ann Gowen, 27, was sentenced to two years in prison and two years on parole for a series of convictions from 2012, including encouraging Lawrence to sneak the items into jail.
- Katjusa Cisar