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Hollidaysburg – a woman from Altoona who was guilty for drug trafficking charges – including those related to illegal drug delivery of June 2023, was sentenced to a minimum of 4.5 years in prison, with a chance to enter the state drug treatment program.

The president of Judge Wade A. Kagarise pronounced the sentence negotiated to Breanna B. Turner, 27, who was credited for a year of incarceration and will be transferred to a state imprisonment.

Defense lawyer, Kristen Anastasi, said Turner should become eligible for the state drug treatment program after the incarceration of about 18 months.

“I think it will take full advantage of the state drug treatment program,” Anastasi said in court.

But if the Department of State Corrections will fall to admit it, then Turner will remain incarcerated at least until it reaches the minimum sentence of 4.5 years.

Initially, Anastasi said that Turner would be eligible for early release if they were excluded from the state drug treatment program, but they did not agree and said they would have insisted on a five -year -old punishment if he had the chance to release early.

“Its mechanism of getting a smaller sentence is to do the state drug treatment program,” said weeks.

The negotiated plea has established Turner’s maximum punishment at the 10-year incarceration, with conditions that asked him to remain in accordance with the treatment and counseling treatment that develops from drugs and alcohol, mental health and cognitive behavioral evaluations.

“I took this as a lesson,” Turner said in court, where Kagarise imposed the negotiated sentence.

Altoona police arrested him twice on Turner in June 2023, initially under accusations that accused him of public drink and of being under the influence of a controlled substance while at a discount store.

Three days later, Altoona Police and the officers with the drug group in Blair County were at the Turner residence on the 500 block in Crawford Avenue, asking about a package delivered there.

The US Inspector Office alerted Altona Police about the pendent delivery of a package from an address from Irvine, California, which was recognized as an illegal drug source.

The police, who found drugs inside the package and evidence of drug use in the residence, arrested on Turner and Kareem Ali Bailey in Newark, NJ, in the drug scheme. In exchange for guilty pleadings, Bailey was sentenced in July to the incarceration from seven to 20 years.

Turner’s third case was developed in November 2023 from a local drug trafficking investigation into a local motel room, with narcotic officers who organized to buy heroin/fentanyl and methamphetamine from Turner.

Weeks and Anastasi also mentioned on Wednesday in court that Turner, whose bail was established at $ 200,000 in cash scheme after e-mail, was wrongly released from county prison, without bail. Weeks said there was an investigation into what happened and insufficient evidence to justify criminal charges.

Anastasi remembered that Turner informed him that he said to leave the prison, even though Turner believed that no one paid her $ 200,000.

The weeks indicated that, after Turner was closed again, it gave a temporary anger to a drug rehabilitation facility.

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