A Pottsville woman is headed to prison after being sentenced Friday in Schuylkill County Court for unlawfully selling a prescription drug in September 2011 in the city.
Shannon K. Reed, 30, did not react as President Judge William E. Baldwin ordered her to spend six to 23 months in prison.
Baldwin also sentenced Reed to pay costs, $100 to the Substance Abuse Education Fund and $132 restitution, and submit a DNA sample to law enforcement authorities. The judge made the sentence effective at 9 a.m. Nov. 12 and allowed Reed to remain free on $20,000 unsecured bail until then in order to give her time to file an appeal, although the defendant said she was not sure she would.
After a one-day trial presided over by Baldwin, a jury of seven women and five men deliberated for more than three hours before convicting Reed on Aug. 27 of delivery of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility.
In a separate case, the same jury found Reed not guilty of two additional counts each of delivery of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance.
Pottsville police had charged her with committing her crimes Sept. 15, 2011. Assistant District Attorney Leo Breznik said Friday that Reed sold a prescription drug.
Reed on Friday continued to deny she did anything wrong.
"I am not guilty," she said. "Something went wrong in the courtroom that day."
She also asked Baldwin for leniency, saying she works and needs to provide for her children.
That did not move Baldwin, however, who wondered why she was not thinking of her children when she was selling drugs and reminded her that the jury had convicted her.
