CLEARFIELD – A former Erie woman accused of possessing multiple drugs was sentenced Monday during sentencing court.
Heather Marie Rea, 45, was originally charged with felony manufacture/delivery/possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, two misdemeanor counts each of intentional possession of a controlled substance, possession small amount of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia as well as a misdemeanor count of make repairs/sell/etc. offensive weapon.
On Monday, she pleaded guilty to one felony count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and was sentenced by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman to serve three months to one year in the county jail with three years concurrent probation.
It was noted that she is required to cooperate with authorities in the case against her co-defendant, Shawn Jason Geer, 46, of Glen Campbell, who is charged with felony manufacture/delivery/possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and misdemeanor counts of intentional possession of a controlled substance, possession small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The charges stem from an incident in Newburg Borough on July 23 after police responded to a tip that Geer, who had an active warrant from Jefferson County, was at the La Jose Hotel.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, Geer was found at a nearby residence where he was working on a motorcycle. He was taken into custody without a problem but as the troopers passed an open garage, they saw his girlfriend, Rea, just inside the door.
Because she also had an active warrant, she was taken into custody.
She reportedly mentioned to them that she left some marijuana in the garage.
An officer entered the garage where he spotted several bags on a four-wheeler. Rea consented to a search of her bags and belongings.
Geer agreed to a search of his clothes, the motorcycle and the four-wheeler. He explained the four-wheeler did not belong to him, but he had borrowed it.
Police noticed the ignition had been bypassed and hot-wired with a toggle switch.
One of the bags on the floorboard had a pipe sticking out of it and two black containers that appeared to contain drug packaging materials.
Because the four-wheeler was thought to be stolen, it was impounded and taken back to the station.
In all, police found three bags of suspected methamphetamine, a jar of methamphetamine, a jar of heroin, six bags of suspected heroin, six suspected ecstasy tablets, various pills, and marijuana, according to the report.
“There were several large plastic bags with residue that appeared to have had a large quantity of methamphetamine at some point,” it notes in the criminal complaint.
In Geer’s leather jacket, police located a methamphetamine pipe, and the motorcycle had a bag with pills in it.
A search of the garage uncovered another meth smoking device.
Rea’s bags had suspected psychedelic mushrooms, a bag with pink pills, a bottle of pills, a metal jar with white residue and brass knuckles, police said.
In her Jefferson County case, Rea pleaded guilty to intentional possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in October and was given one year probation, according to online court documents.
