A Carbon County woman got her wish Thursday in the county court when she was sentenced to a state prison term for drug dealing and a theft incident.

Judge Joseph J. Matika sentenced Susan Victoria Karley, 50, of Nesquehoning to serve a total of one to two years in a state correctional institution on counts of criminal use of a communication facility and theft by receiving stolen property.In the drug case Nesquehoning Police Chief Sean Smith arranged to have a confidential informant, supervised by officers Carl Breiner and Timothy Wuttke, meet with Karley in the borough to make a controlled buy of illegal substances.Karley agreed to sell the informant five hydrocodone pills at $5 per pill, and 30 morphine pills at $20 per pill.The informant bought two hydrocodone pills and one morphine pill from Karley.Karley had a prescription for the drugs but it is illegal to sell your prescriptions.In the theft case, Smith charged Karley with taking a diamond ring belonging toa woman who also had an apartment in the same building as Karley.The ring was reported missing Sept. 16, 2015. Through the course of an investigation, Smith learned that Karley was the cleaning woman for the apartment building and had a key to enter all the apartments in the building.Police also noted they had investigated other reported thefts in the same building.The womantold police that on Sept 18 she received a call from Karley stating the missing ring was in her mailbox and she should come and take it.Smith responded to the apartment building and found the ring in the mailbox noted.Smith interviewed Karley on Oct. 18, 2015, and the charges were subsequently filed.Defense Attorney Gregory Lee Mousseau of the public defender's office said the case had been continued several times because his client wavered on her plea and then on whether a state prison sentence would better help her alcohol abuse problems.He said his client was requesting a state prison term so she could take advantage of the programs the state offers for those addicted to drugs and alcohol.Matika said he would go along with the request not only because defendant wanted a state prison term but also based on the charges and her extensive prior criminal record.In addition to the prison term, Karley was ordered to render 75 hours of community service when released on parole, get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, supply a DNA sample, pay court costs of about $1,000 and have no contact with the victim in the theft case.She was given credit for four days spent in jail on the charges.She began the term Friday.