PORT ANGELES — A 23-year-old Port Angeles woman has been sentenced to one year in prison for possession with intent to deliver heroin.
Kathryn A. Loran pleaded guilty to the Class B felony last November and was sentenced March 10.
Two counts of bail jumping were dismissed.
Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team supervisor Jason Viada said the heroin charge stemmed from a theft complaint at a business on the 600 block of South Lincoln Street in Port Angeles last June 4.
A Clallam County sheriff’s deputy arrest Loran on a warrant near the Goodwill store and found 37.5 grams of heroin in her purse, according to the certification for probable cause.
The heroin found in Loran’s purse could be sold on the street for as much as $7,500, Viada said.
Loran is being held at the Washington Corrections Center for Women at Gig Harbor.
Her prison sentence will be followed by one year of community custody, according to the minutes of the sentencing hearing.
Meth possession
In another OPNET case, Jacob A. Nash, 31, of Sequim was sentenced March 18 to two years’ community custody after pleading guilty to four counts of possession of methamphetamine.
Nash pleaded guilty to the Class C felonies in January.
OPNET officials said he sold the drug to informants in the Sequim area in July, August and September 2013.
Drug charge
Meanwhile, Monica N. McDaniels, 37, of Port Angeles was charged March 13 with three counts of delivery of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop.
McDaniels was being held in the Clallam County jail for an unrelated drug possession case when she was rebooked for the additional drug charges.
During the investigation, OPNET developed probable cause to believe that McDaniels delivered 12.2 grams of methamphetamine to OPNET for $600 during the course of three sales in and around Port Angeles in July and August 2013.
McDaniels pleaded not guilty to the new charges at her arraignment last Friday.
