Woman arrested in drug raid was on probation
A Tamaqua woman who was arrested Friday on drug charges had just been placed on probation by a Schuylkill County judge on charges stemming from an assault on a woman last April and for using a stun gun during a picnic melee last May.
Ashley Weirich, 20, had been charged on April 16, 2013, by Tamaqua police with simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct.Weirich and two other women attacked Nicole Hazlett, also of Tamaqua. Police said Hazlett was walking with a friend when Weirich struck her. Another woman, Ashley Bynon, then also attacked Hazlett while the third woman, Melissa Baer, recorded the assault on her cell phone.Judge James Goodman on April 24 ordered Weirich to 23 months of probation on the assault charge. The other two charges were dropped. She must also pay court costs and supervision fees.Goodman on March 19 sentenced Bynon to 23 months of probation and on April 23 sentenced Baer to the same punishment.Goodman on April 24 also ordered probation for Weirich in another case, this one from a May 9, 2013, incident. She was charged with possessing a prohibited weapon, simple assault, use of an electronic device, harassment and disorderly conduct. The sentences are to be served at the same time.In that case, Weirich used a stun gun on two people during a melee that erupted from a picnic at 31 N. Railroad St.Weirich on Friday was arrested after a police raid on a house at 308 Washington St. and jailed under $25,000 straight cash bail. She's charged with possession with intent to manufacture/deliver, possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communications facility.The raid was triggered by a sale of $40 worth of cocaine by Weirich to a confidential informant. Weirich was arrested during one of two drug raids conducted by Tamaqua Police on Friday. A photo of items confiscated during both raids, published on Friday, included cash and cocaine taken from Weirich's home.