A Butler woman was sentenced Thursday to serve six to 12 years and 10 months in state prison after pleading guilty to stabbing and robbing a woman during a drug deal last February in Butler.

Danielle Nicole Kline, 40, was sentenced to serve 72 to 154 months in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to a charge of attempted second-degree murder and to concurrently serve 60 to 120 months in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to robbery. Both charges are felonies.

Common Pleas Court Judge Kelley Streib ordered the sentence. Kline appeared by video from the county prison, where she is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. She received credit for having served 324 days in prison.

As a part of a plea agreement, Assistant District Attorney Mark Lope did not prosecute Kline for a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance filed by state police in November 2020.

According to testimony from Kline’s preliminary hearing in March 2022 before District Judge William Fullerton, the victim, Jessica Brown, gave Kline $80 on Feb. 15 in an agreement to split 10 portions of an unspecified narcotic. Brown was supposed to get eight portions, and Kline was supposed to get two.

Brown said the pair went to an auto body shop on West Jefferson Street, where Kline was supposed to buy the drugs from a man who was having his car worked on. Kline and a man exited the building, and the man gave the drugs to Brown, according to testimony.

Kline asked for her share, but Brown said she thought Kline wasn’t going to give her share. She said Kline then stabbed her. Brown was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital, where she said she stayed for three nights before being discharged. Brown said she received stitches on wounds to her hands and abdomen and needed surgery for internal bleeding, related to a 4-inch gash in her abdomen.

Kline turned herself in to city police the next day. No charges have been filed against Brown.