BUCYRUS, Ohio — A Bucyrus woman is headed to prison for less than a year after pleading guilty Wednesday to mixing crack cocaine with red Kool-Aid and shooting it up.
Samantha Dyer, 28, was arrested around noon on Christmas Eve last year in the 900 block of South Walnut Street, where the Crawford County Sheriff's Office and Bucyrus Police Department had tracked her down on a warrant for a parole violation stemming from an earlier theft charge.
In addition to locating Dyer, authorities found crack cocaine, syringes and other drug paraphernalia in her possession. Dyer admitted mixing the crack and Kool-Aid, and was charged with drug possession, a fifth-degree felony.
Crawford County Municipal Court Judge Shane Leuthold had some harsh words for Dyer when he set her bond at $500,000 shortly after Christmas.
"In August you appeared in front of me, and based on your appearance it was apparent to me that you had a drug problem," he told her at that time, adding that she had been advised last summer to enter a drug-treatment program, which she did not do.
"You look 100 times worse now than you did last August. You look like a damn trainwreck. I believe you tried to kill yourself, unintentionally. You're not going to die on my watch," the judge said.
Wednesday was Dyer's day before his brother, Crawford County Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold, who accepted her plea of guilty to the drug-possession charge and sentenced her to eight months in prison.
"When you get out, do you plan on coming back to Crawford County?" he asked her. Dyer answered yes.
"I've done everything I can to show that this is not the county to get into drugs. If you go back into drugs, you will likely get the same result," the judge said.
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