Vickers sentenced on drug, child endangerment charges

Published 5:00 pm Tuesday, April 19, 2005

CANYON CITY – Rhonda Lynn Vickers, aka Rhonda Lynn Millwood, the 32-year-old John Day woman arrested after a police raid on her Northwest Second Street residence on Sept. 28, 2004, pleaded guilty on charges of possession of a Schedule-2 controlled substance, a Class C felony, and endangering the welfare of a minor in Grant County Circuit Court on Thursday, March 31.

Vickers was arrested after police received complaints from citizens living in the area concerning possible drug activity at the residence, along with reports of child endangerment and also stolen property being on the premises.

As a result, police obtained a search warrant for the residence where they recovered items of drug paraphernalia with residue consistent with the use of marijuana and methamphetamine, along with items of stolen property.

Child and Family Services were also involved in the investigation and a child who was present at the time of the raid was taken into protective custody by the Department of Human Services.

At Thursday’s plea, Judge William D. Cramer Jr. sentenced Vickers to a term of 10 days in the Grant County Jail, with credit for time served, and placed her on 18 months supervised probation on the drug possession charge.

She was fined $1,166, which included a unitary assessment of $107 and a county assessment of $59, with $1,000 of the fine suspended, and given the drug package, which includes special probationary conditions for drug-related offenses.

Vickers’s driver’s license was suspended for six months and she was also required by the court to complete inpatient treatment at Recovery Village.

On the child endangering charge, Vickers was sentenced to an additional five days in jail, with credit for time served, and placed on supervised probation for 36 months.

She was fined a total of $1,626, which included a unitary assessment of $567 and a county assessment of $59, with $1,000 of the fine suspended.

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