BUCYRUS — A Galion woman was returned to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville after she pleaded guilty to violating the terms and conditions of her community control.
Bonnie Hart, 38, appeared in Crawford County Common Pleas Court Wednesday to answer the charges. Hart was on community control after being granted a judicial release from prison on August 8. She had been sentenced to 12 months in prison for possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony.
According to probation officer Chris Heydinger, Hart was ordered not to use drugs and admitted to using cocaine on August 9. On August 10, she overdosed in Mansfield. Hart admitted to violating her probation.
Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold was disappointed in Hart.
“You use drugs and alcohol and other substances and get into nothing but trouble. Nobody forced you down and shot you up,” Leuthold said. “You hang around these people and bad things happen. For some reason, it’s always a giant mess with you. And let me tell you, I can sign you back into prison over and over again. Tons of trouble follows you everywhere.”
Leuthold ordered Hart back to prison for 12 months. She will be given jail time credit. Leuthold said he would not oppose transitional control if the prison requested it.
Robin Fraley, 30, of Galion learned her fate after she pleaded guilty to violating the terms and conditions of her community control. Fraley admitted she was ordered to get her driving permit and failed to do so. On August 2, she submitted to a routine drug test and was found to have gabapentin in her urine.
Fraley admitted using Lyrica pills and to agreeing to smuggle drugs into the inmate she was having phone contact with at the Justice Center. She conveyed that, upon arrest, she would smuggle drugs into the jail.
“Here you are trying to help some goofball in jail that you don’t even really know. If I ever catch you sneaking a drug into a jail you will go to prison for a very long time,” Leuthold said. “You just turned 30. You’re an adult. Start acting like an adult. Wake up! These scumbags and drug dealers you are hanging out with are no good.”
Leuthold reimposed her 12-month prison sentence.
In other court action, Kimberly Fox, 34, of Bucyrus was sentenced to 12 months in prison after she admitted violating the terms and conditions of her community control. Fox was sentenced to prison for two counts of possession of drugs, both fifth-degree felonies punishable with up to 12 months in prison and pleaded guilty to one count of weapons under disability, a third-degree felony punishable with up to 36 months in prison.
Fox was sentenced to a total of 42 months in prison. She was sent to prison in January and was granted judicial release in June.
Leuthold sentenced Fox to 12 months in prison for the violation and put a stay on her community control. When she serves the 12 months, she will return to Crawford County on community control for five years. The three-year prison sentence can be reimposed if she fails to complete community control.
“The bottom line is that you have to quit doing drugs. I will not oppose transitional control but when you come back out, you are back at square one with this court,” Leuthold said. “If you use again, you are going to prison for a long time. I’m not playing this game with you.”