Youngstown woman sentenced to prison for selling drugs

LISBON (AP) - A Youngstown woman was sentenced in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court on Thursday to spend nine months at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville for two counts of trafficking in cocaine in the Salem area.

Arkisha Pearce, 36, has an "extensive criminal history" according to Assistant County Prosecutor Ryan Weikart, who added most of those are drug-related. Some of her past convictions also include two prior for trafficking in drugs.

The current charges were from two separate crimes. First in Sept. 16, 2013, Pearce sold or offered to sell about .5 grams of cocaine and then again on April 3, 2014, Pearce sold or offered to sell about 1.05 grams of cocaine. Both sales were to a confidential informant and happened at an address on South Howard Avenue in the vicinity of the Quaker Daycare in Salem.