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Carbon woman given jail term for drug dealing

A Carbon County woman was sentenced to a county prison term on Monday afternoon on a drug dealing charge.

Judge Steven R. Serfass sentenced Sara Mary Hargreaves, 32, of Lansford, to serve three to one day less 24 months in prison on a charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, methamphetamine, a felony.

She was arrested on March 14, 2019, following a traffic stop along East White Bear Drive by Summit Hill police. The drugs, paraphernalia and cash were found in a tackle box in the vehicle. Hargreaves admitted the items were hers.

At the sentencing proceeding she entered a guilty plea to a charge of criminal use of a communication facility. She was arrested on that charge on Oct. 27, 2020, when Nesquehoning police who went to her Railroad Street home and found drugs and a cellphone, which she admitted using to set up drug sales.

Serfass imposed a prison term of three to one day less 24 months on that charge, with the term running concurrently with the first count.

She was also ordered to get a mental health evaluation and follow any recommendation for treatment, supply a DNA sample, zero tolerance imposed on drug or alcohol use, pay court costs of about $1,000, pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and render a total of 200 hours of community service.

She was given credit for 34 days already served.

She is currently an inmate in the county prison and her sentencing was done via video from the prison.