Craigsville woman sentenced on drug charges

By Tony Gonzalez

Published: September 17, 2008

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a Craigsville woman to one year and six months of electronic home monitoring and five years on probation for possessing and attempting to make methamphetamine and for distribution of marijuana.
Shelby Lawhorn, 42, was found guilty of the charges April 11. Her time in Middle River Regional Jail will reduce her time under electronic home monitoring to approximately 13 months.
Prosecutors requested concurrent sentences totaling 18 months in prison, arguing that previous drug treatments for Lawhorn have not proved effective during “three decades” of drug use.
“Nothing else seems to have worked,” Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Robert Boylan told Judge Thomas H. Wood.
Lawhorn asked for mercy.
“I have been working my recovery program. I think I have been doing really well,” Lawhorn told the judge. “I’ve come a long way since I was 18 years of age.”
Lawhorn said she has been clean of drugs for two years.
Wood warned Lawhorn that her probation term will include drug tests.
She and her husband David Lawhorn, 44, were arrested in May 2006 after policed raided their home and seized about $93,000 worth of packaged methamphetamine, marijuana and a firearm. David Lawhorn is already serving time for production of methamphetamine and marijuana and possession of a firearm by a felon.