Emler admits lying about stolen items
A woman who traded her possessions for cocaine will lose her freedom for five days, not for trading for the crack, but instead for lying about what happened to her belongings.
The defendant, Angela Emler, 38, entered a guilty plea this week to the charge of perjury and was directed to serve five days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence.
Her plea comes after she maintained someone broke into her home last month and stole several items, including a 32-inch TV, a DVD player, a computer, and flat-screen monitor. Emler originally claimed she returned home to find her door open and the items missing.
The case was investigated as a burglary given the thousands of dollars worth of missing items. However, a raid on a major crack cocaine dealer prompted a change of tune by Emler after police located the “stolen” items inside the crack house of alleged major trafficker Charles Clark.
During the investigation, Emler confessed to trading the allegedly stolen items to Clark for crack cocaine. Clark also reportedly confirmed her story, justifying how he came into possession of the items.
Emler reportedly said she made up the story about the burglary to explain what became of the numerous pieces of property which she had secretly traded for drugs. The reason for the false report was she wanted to keep her family from knowing she had a cocaine addiction. Police are looking into numerous other private possessions found in the house, suspecting several other people were trading their possessions to Clark for crack cocaine.