Published April 26. 2016 01:43PM
A Carbon County woman was sentenced to a time served term last week in the county court on charges of drug dealing and drunken driving.
Samantha Lynn Wilson, 24, of Lehighton, was sentenced to serve 90 days to one day less 24 months in prison on a charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance - methamphetamine, and 72 hours to six months on a driving under the influence charge, with the terms running concurrent.Judge Joseph J. Matika gave Wilson credit for 90 days spent in an inpatient rehabilitation program and also jail time and immediately paroled her.Wilson was arrested on the drug count on July 23, 2014, in the parking lot of the Walmart store in Mahoning Township. Township police responded to a report of a female unconscious in a vehicle. Wilson was the female. When police were investigating the incident they found methamphetamine in the vehicle along with various drug paraphernalia. Wilson admitted to police she was selling the meth.The DUI occurred on June 6, 2014, along Bridge Street in Lehighton, where she was stopped by state police at Lehighton. A test showed the presence of a controlled substance.Matika also ordered her to pay a fine of $1,000 and a one-year license suspension on the DUI charge. On the drug count she was ordered to get a drug and alcohol evaluation and follow any recommendation for treatment, zero tolerance for drug and alcohol use, supply a DNA sample, render 50 hours of community service, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole.