SMETHPORT — A Shinglehouse woman was sentenced recently in McKean County Court to spend at least a year in state prison for conspiring to deliver cocaine.
Christina Lynn-Hamilton, 33, was sentenced to 12 to 24 months in state prison as a co-defendant to Mark Nagy, who was sentenced in December to serve one to two years in state prison and four years of concurrent supervision.
The two had conspired to deliver cocaine in 2023, and were nabbed by the McKean County Drug Task Force.
She is eligible for the state prison boot camp program and must complete the state’s drug treatment program, said District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer.
Also recently in court, James White, 69, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to delivering substances on four different occasions in McKean County. He pleaded to two counts of delivering cocaine on July 24 and Sept. 12, along with possessing with intent to deliver cocaine on that same day. He also pleaded guilty to delivering non-controlled substances that he purported to be a controlled substance. All are felonies.
He will be sentenced Feb. 27.
Russell Tallentire, 35, of Bradford, pleaded guilty to delivery of cocaine, a charge filed by the McKean County Drug Task Force for actions in February 2024, Shaffer said. He will be sentenced March 13.
Kevin Eaton, 34, of Rixford, entered a guilty plea to a charge of abuse of a care-dependent person.
Shaffer said he was charged by Officer Devin Grandinetti with dragging a mentally impaired resident by the leg and kicking him in the chest when Eaton was an employee of a facility in Foster Township and had a duty to provide care and protection to the resident. He will be sentenced March 13.