Woman receives jail time on drug offenses

Friday, March 11, 2016
Alexis Nicole Anderson

McCOOK, Neb. -- A Benkelman woman received jail time earlier this week in Red Willow County District Court for attempting to possess methamphetamine.

The woman, 20-year-old Alexis Nicole Anderson, was sentenced to 180 days in county jail, with credit given for 11 days already served, and fined $100 on a possession of drug paraphernalia offense.

Anderson accepted a plea agreement reducing a Class IV felony alleging possession of methamphetamine to the Class I misdemeanor for attempted possession, as well as admitting guilt to the infraction for possession of drug paraphernalia.

The charges stem from her arrest in March of 2015 following a traffic stop just south of the Red Willow County jail in McCook. Anderson and Anthony Peters of Benkelman were both arrested at the time.

Peters was subsequently sentenced to 300 days in county jail after being convicted of a Class IV felony offense for possession of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor offense for driving on a suspended driver's license.

While the felony drug case was working its way through the court system, Anderson was cited for other offenses on at least two other occasions, according to court documents. She was cited for shoplifting on July 6, 2015, at the McCook Walmart and arrested in McCook on July 27, 2015, for being under the influence of methamphetamine.

She was subsequently sentenced to 9-months probation in both criminal cases during a sentencing hearing in Red Willow County Court in December of 2015.