Published: November 03, 2009 12:04 am      

Probation ordered in drugs on Boles ISD campus case

A Dallas woman has been placed on probation, fined and ordered to complete community service after pleading guilty to the possession of drugs on an area school district campus earlier this year.

Christy Antoinette Miles was also charged with the illegal possession of a weapon and endangering a child in connection with the same incident, but the charges were dismissed during a Monday morning hearing in the 196th District Court.

Miles and Gary Desmond Allen of Greenville each received one indictment in April for delivery of between one-fourth ounce and five pounds of marijuana and for the manufacture/possession of between four and 200 ounces of a controlled substance, namely Phencyclidine (PCP), both in a Drug Free Zone. Allen and Miles were alleged to have possessed the substances while within 1,000 feet of Boles Home on the Boles Independent School District campus on Feb. 6. Miles was also indicted on one count of unlawful possession of a weapon in a Drug Free Zone for having a pistol in her car at the same time, and abandoning/endangering a child, for exposing a passenger in the vehicle who was less than 17 years old to the drugs.

The charge involving PCP was a first degree felony punishable upon conviction by a maximum sentence of from five to 99 years to life in prison and an optional fine of up to $10,000, while the remaining counts were state jail felonies, punishable by maximum sentences upon conviction of from 180 days to two years in a state jail.

As part of a plea bargain arrangement, the charge involving PCP was reduced to a second degree felony, punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison, after the allegation concerning a Drug Free Zone was removed. Miles was placed on 10 years of deferred adjudication probation, was fined $500 and was ordered to complete 240 hours of community service.

Deferred adjudication carries no finding of guilt, although those defendants who are found to have violated a deferred probation are subject to being sentenced to the maximum punishment.

Allen, who had previous convictions for armed robbery, pleaded guilty last month and was sentenced to 10 years in the Texas Department of Corrections-Institutional Division on the PCP charge and two years (730 days) in a state jail on the marijuana charge.