Woman gets probation for stealing mother's medication

A woman received three years probation Wednesday in state District Court in Havre for stealing her mother’s medication while visiting her for the weekend.

Janessa J. Cline, born in 1981, received a three year deferred imposition of sentence for criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony.

The sentence is under a plea deal that dropped a misdemeanor theft charge.

If Cline abides by the conditions of her sentence, she can have the offense wiped from her record. On Jan. 28, a woman called deputies to report that her hydrocodone prescription had been stolen from her purse while...