Summit Hill woman sentenced to state prison on drug charges

A Summit Hill woman was sentenced to a state prison term on Thursday afternoon on drug-related charges.

Carly Fairchild, 25, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and retail theft. One of the possession counts was to contraband in prison, a felony.

On the contraband count she was sentenced by President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II to serve one to three years in a state correctional institution. On the other drug counts and a retail theft charge she was placed on probation for a year on each count, with all the terms running concurrently.

She was arrested on the contraband charge on March 20, 2019. Nesquehoning police were called to the county prison where a person being processed into the prison was found with drugs. Fairchild was brought to the prison by Summit Hill police.

The other possession count occurred on March 20, 2019, along North Oak Street filed by Summit Hill police. Heroin was found on her person. The possession of paraphernalia count occurred on Sept. 4, 2018, filed by Lansford police for an incident at Bertsch and Pardee streets. The retail theft occurred at the Family Dollar Store in Lansford on Nov. 2, 2018.

Fairchild is currently waiting to be transferred to a state prison on a sentence imposed in Schuylkill County late last year. That term was for nine to 24 months. Nanovic ruled his sentence would run concurrent with Schuylkill County.

Fairchild said she feels the state system will provide the help she needs for a drug addiction problem.

She was also ordered to get both mental health and drug and alcohol evaluations, supply a DNA sample and pay court costs of about $1,000.