Crime & Safety

Woman Admits Selling Pot to Cop Near Modick

Tanya McKevitt, 19, sentenced to 270 days in a correctional facility for pleading guilty to drug charge and resisting arrest.

A Hopatcong woman admitted to twice selling an undercover cop pot within 500 feet of .

Tanya McKevitt, 19, pleaded guilty to third-degree distribution of a controlled dangerous substance and fourth-degree resisting arrest on June 27, according to the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office. She was sentenced on Sept. 9 to 270 days in the Keogh-Dwyer Correctional Facility, three years' probation and a six-month loss of her driver's license, the prosecutor's office said.

McKevitt sold pot to the undercover cop twice in August 2010, police said. She also resisted arrest by kicking a Hopatcong police officer in March 2011, police said.

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McKevitt also must undergo a Treatment Assessment Services for the Courts program, submit a DNA sample, undergo random drug testing, obtain and maintain employment, pay $25 restitution and $1,455 in fines and fees.


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