Nina House, 29, of Margate, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in two pending cases to one count each of theft and public drunkenness before President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II..

She was charged with the theft count, admitting she took various prescription medications from the home of Bonnie Koach, 218 Lehigh Ave., in Palmerton, on or about Aug. 1, 2013.The medications were valued at $516.She was charged with the public drunkenness count on Aug. 13, 2013, along Delaware Avenue by Palmerton police for causing a disturbance at a local service station.House admitted to a drug addiction problem and said she was attempting to get into the Salvation Army's long-term inpatient program.On the theft charge Nanovic sentenced her to serve one to 18 months in prison followed by one year of probation. She was also ordered to get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations and make restitution of $516 to the victim. She was given credit for 118 days already spent in jail on the charge and was paroled.On the drunkenness charge she was fined $300.Thomas Edward Wise, 28, of Blakeslee, pleaded to one count of theft. He admitted stealing the prescription medications of Alainna Bunch, 101 Meckesville Road, in Penn Forest Township.State police at Fern Ridge responded to the Bunch home on Nov. 20, 2014, for the report of the theft of the medications. Wise was in the home at the time and the victim identified him as a suspect in the theft.He later admitted to troopers he took the medications. The value of the medications was $645.Nanovic deferred sentencing as Wise has another criminal matter pending.