Woman passes drug test, gets less jail time

A Boundary County judge gave a Coeur d’Alene woman who sold a prescription painkiller to an undercover cop an option during her sentencing last week.

Judge Patrick Luster told Frankie Obleness, 33, if she tested clean for drug-use he would give her 30 days in the county jail. If not, she would go to North Idaho Correctional Institution in Cottonwood for six months.

Obleness passed the drug test and is doing her 30 days for trying to sell the prescription pain killer hydrocodone to someone in the parking lot at Kootenai River Inn on Aug. 31. Security reported the incident to police, who made an undercover buy.

Obleness also received a two- to four-year suspended sentence, which she might have to serve if she violates her probation over the next three years.

According to testimony during sentencing, Obleness has had problems methamphetamine, opiates and marijuana.

During sentencing Luster was inclined to sentence Obleness to a six-month retained jurisdiction program in Cottonwood.

“These types of addictions take time to treat and don’t go away over night,” said Luster. “It requires motivation and retained jurisdiction provides a time out from life so you can focus on getting your life back together.”