Cumberland Co. woman caught with meth, scale, ledger trying to visit SCI-Frackville
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SENTINEL FILE PHOTO - SCI-Frackville, seen in a January, 2017 file photo.
FRACKVILLE – A Cumberland County woman is facing several drug charges after state troopers say she was found with methamphetamine, over 300 empty baggies, a scale, and a ledger while trying to visit the state prison here.
Stephanie Kent, 33, of New Kingstown, is facing a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver, as well as 12 charges of possession for the incident.
Corporal Matthew Hartung filed the criminal complaint Monday in Magisterial District Judge Edward Tarantelli’s Frackville courtroom.
The incident, he wrote, happened on August 29 around midday when troopers were called to SCI-Frackville off Altamont Boulevard.
Kent was stopped at a vehicle checkpoint in the parking lot of the prison. Department of Corrections personnel told troopers that they request to search each vehicle with a K9 and, if denied, those vehicles are free to leave the facility.
Kent granted permission to search her Ford Explorer and DOC personnel found two handbags with 26 grams of suspected methamphetamine in multiple bags as well as drug paraphernalia.
Kent told Hartung that the needle in the purse was hers, but nothing else in the vehicle was.
She said she gives people rides regularly and “people are in and out of her vehicle.”
Seized from her vehicle were seven baggies of suspected methamphetamine, two glass pipes, 370 empty baggies, a black digital scale, and three needles.
Notebooks were also seized which, Hartung wrote, appeared to contain documented drug related activity such as ledgers and owe sheets.
Kent was arraigned Monday morning and released of $75,000 unsecured bail.
A preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 28.
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