CAPE GIRARDEAU — A Dexter woman will serve six years in prison after being sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
Tori R. Carlisle, 43, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. following her guilty plea on charges of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Court documents showed law enforcement officers arrested Carlisle on July 25, 2020, at a truck stop in New Madrid County. At that time, they discovered scales and drug paraphernalia in her vehicle and 25 grams of methamphetamine hidden in her shirt.
According to the release, Carlisle initially was charged in state court and released on bond. However, two weeks after her release, she was pulled over for a traffic violation in Mississippi County, where she was found in possession of “several plastic bags containing approximately 40 grams of methamphetamine” under the driver’s seat.
Carlisle admitted at her plea hearing earlier this year that she was “engaged in the distribution of methamphetamine,” the release stated.
Once Carlisle serves her sentence, the U.S. Attorney’s office said, she will be placed on supervised release for a period of three years.
Her case, according to the release, was investigated by the New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department, Mississippi County Sheriff’s Department and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, while Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Koester handled the prosecution for the government.