Bailey Stuart, 20, pleaded guilty March 6 to misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor.
Stuart was arrested in a sting operation last October at the post office after she and a male, whose case is still ongoing, received a package they thought was 14 grams of heroin.
After obtaining a federal warrant to open the package, a U.S. Postal Inspector intercepted the large envelope containing the heroin in Washington, according to the criminal complaint. The package was sent from a fictitious address in Marysville, Wash. to the 24-year-old male defendant in Haines. Stuart drove the couple to the post office where the male retrieved the package. Police later arrested them in the post office parking lot.
“(The male defendant) said he received the package from a friend living in Washington,” the criminal complaint says. “(He) said the arrangement he made with the individual in Washington was that he was to sell the heroin from the package in Haines and split the profits with the individual in Washington.”
Both defendants were charged with one count of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree, a felony charge.
Stuart received a suspended imposition of sentence. She was sentenced to serve 80 hours of community service and one-year of probation.