(KNZA)--A Hiawatha woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in two separate cases.
Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill says 44-year-old Beth Mikita was sentenced Monday in Brown County District Court to 20 months in prison in a drug case and to 16 months in prison after her probation was revoked in a Hiawatha Chamber of Commerce embezzlement case.
Hill says the sentences were ordered to run consecutively for a total of 36 months in prison.
Mikita pleaded no contest last month to charges of possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor theft. In exchange for the plea, two additional drug counts were dismissed.
Mikita and Kalen Pyle, of Atchison, were arrested in January in the Hiawatha Wal-Mart parking lot after the Brown County's Sheriff's Department's K-9, Ari, alerted on their vehicle.
Last June, Mikita was placed on one-year supervised probation and ordered to pay more than $8,000 restitution after being convicted of embezzling funds while serving as Chamber treasurer between August 2014 and April 2015.
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