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Ex-WVa. mayor pleads guilty to smuggling tobacco into prison 

Jump to full article: AP, 2009-06-26
Author: The Associated Press

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Former Mill Creek Mayor Diane Currence will avoid jail time as part of an agreement in which she pleaded guilty to charges of delivering contraband to an inmate at Huttonsville Correctional Center.

Randolph County Magistrate George Riggleman sentenced Currence to a community service program. Both the charges Currence pleaded guilty to are misdemeanors, and other charges have been dropped.

Currence was accused of bringing tobacco and other substances to a prisoner along with her daughter Kathryn and her son Jason.

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