A Kunkletown woman is going to apply for placement in a state prison program in five criminal cases in which she entered guilty pleas.

Jennifer Gongora, 32, appeared Friday before Judge Steven R. Serfass to be sentenced in four pending cases. However, before that proceeding she entered a guilty plea in a fifth case to a count of default in required appearance. She was arrested on Aug. 7 by police on a warrant. She failed to report to the county prison on April 28 as ordered in the four cases in which she previously pleaded guilty.

She pleaded to one count each of contraband into a prison, possession of a controlled substance — heroin, driving under the influence of a controlled substance, and driving under suspension — DUI related.

Gongora was arrested for the contraband charge on Nov. 25, 2017, when she reported to the county prison for a weekend sentence for DUI. During a routine search she was found with needles loaded with heroin. The DUI occurred on Oct. 24, 2017, along Spruce Hollow Road in Lower Towamensing Township. The suspension count was filed in that matter.

The drug possession charge stems from an Aug. 4, 2017, incident involving an ongoing investigation by the state Attorney General’s office and county drug task force in which heroin was being distributed.

She will now be transferred to a state correctional institution to be evaluated for the state intermediate punishment program. If accepted, she will serve two years in a state prison, with the first seven months in prison followed by a period in an intensive drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in the prison and then time in a halfway house. If she is not accepted in the program, she will be brought back to Carbon County to be sentenced.