Sentencing is planned this week for an Emporia woman who pleaded no contest to a drug conspiracy charge almost two months ago.
Angela Peres pleaded in October to a count of conspiracy to traffic contraband into the Lyon County Jail. She allegedly brought a small amount of methamphetamine into the jail and then passed the drugs to fellow inmates in February.
Sentencing is at 3:30 pm Wednesday in Lyon County District Court.
Several fellow inmates have already been sentenced as part of the overall case. Earlier this fall, Peres’ cellmate, Patty Rangel, pleaded no contest to a conspiracy to traffic contraband charge and was sentenced to probation with an underlying 14-month prison term. Co-defendant Rebecca Berkenmeier pleaded no contest to attempted trafficking in a correctional facility and was sentenced to probation with an underlying 12-month prison term. Another co-defendant, Valerie Carrion, pleaded no contest to attempted trafficking.
Meanwhile, Peres had pleaded no contest to a charge of drug possession last year after a case that developed in 2016. Peres also had an appeal denied in late October by the Kansas Court of Appeals after she allegedly violated her probation terms in that 2016 case.
