Werkheiser jailed for selling drugs
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The narcotics trafficker, Bridget Werkheiser, 44, was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve 200 days of a nine-year sentence for her conviction this February on charges of sale and possession of methamphetamine. She was also ordered to pay $4,000 plus court costs and perform 50 hours public service.
Werkheiser was convicted for selling drugs while she worked as a clerk at Scot Market on New Smithville Highway last year. Investigators hid in an overhead compartment of the store and watched as Werkheiser gave drugs to co-defendant Dewayne McClure, 27, with intentions he was to sell the narcotics. McClure testified against Werkheiser during her recent trial. McClure served 120 days of a four-year sentence and paid a $2,000 fine for his part in the crime.
Along with the eyewitness account and the testimony of the co-defendant, lawmen also had video tape footage of the crime, something which led to Werkheiser?s jury conviction.
In addition to the drug trafficking sentence, Werkheiser was given a three-year probationary sentence during sentencing hearing recently for manufacture of meth for her separate arrest two months after her arrest on the Scot Market charges.