A jury trial that was set to begin in Butler County Common Pleas Court on Monday for two people facing felony drug charges was rescheduled for one of the defendants after the other entered a plea of no contest.

Gilbert R. Gans, 41, of Butler, pleaded no contest to a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver in a plea agreement in which he will be sentenced to 18 to 36 months in prison followed by 12 months of probation with immediate parole.

Judge Kelley Streib accepted the agreement and scheduled sentencing for Aug. 25.

Streib rescheduled the trial for co-defendant Cynthia Ann McCallister, 41, of Butler, for Aug. 11.

Both defendants were charged with the same offenses — possession with intent to deliver and conspiracy to commit possession with intent to deliver and misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia — and are free on bail.

Butler City police filed the charges on Feb. 17, 2021, after allegedly finding about 25 grams of cocaine in a back bedroom of an apartment in the 200 block of Fairview Avenue where they went to assist state parole agents and county probation officers with serving McCallister with a parole revocation warrant.

According to police, the tenant told authorities that Gans and McCallister had been staying in the back bedroom.

The search of the bedroom also allegedly turned up a box of syringes and used stamp bags, other packaging materials, five cellphones, two digital scales and a handwritten ledger filled with names and dollar amounts next to those names, police said.