CLEARFIELD – An Altoona woman pleaded guilty in multiple drug cases during plea and sentencing court Tuesday.
State police say Ashley Nicole McGarvey, 37, whose original address in the cases was DuBois, sold drugs to a confidential informant and an undercover officer in April 2023.
Judge Paul E. Cherry sentenced her to serve a total of 30 months to eight years in state prison followed by five years probation for felony counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of communication facility in three separate cases.
The criminal complaint in the first case details how investigators were in contact with an informant on April 5, 2023 when they arranged for the CI to purchase two eight balls of methamphetamine from McGarvey.
They met at a convenience store in DuBois where McGarvey entered a vehicle with an undercover officer and the informant. McGarvey provided two bags of methamphetamine to the officer in exchange for $300.
According to the affidavit in the second case, an undercover officer contacted McGarvey and she agreed to sell the officer 14 grams of methamphetamine on April 21, 2023.
This time they met in the parking lot of a supermarket. McGarvey entered the trooper’s vehicle where she reportedly provided a plastic bag of crystal methamphetamine in exchange for $600.
The third case was part of a drug bust by state police, which involved 31 other people in March 2024. She was charged for another drug sale in January, 2023.
In two additional cases, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and theft by unlawful taking. For those offenses, she was not given any additional term in prison, but was fined $1 plus costs.
