A county jail inmate was sentenced to probation Thursday for smuggling drugs into Butler County Prison.

Trina M. Holderman, 30, of Pitcairn, Allegheny County, pleaded guilty in October to smuggling drugs into the jail in March 2019. For that charge, Judge William Shaffer sentenced her to three years probation for the felony. She must also spend the first year of her probation on house arrest with electronic monitoring.

She was also sentenced in two other, unrelated cases. Holderman received one year probation in each case for possessing drug paraphernalia. All three sentences will run simultaneously.

In the drug smuggling case, Butler County sheriff's deputies took Holderman to the prison around 1:40 p.m. March 15 after they arrested her on a bench warrant, according to previous reports.

Charging documents report a deputy and prison officer asked Holderman “multiple times” if she had any contraband on her, and she eventually turned over a crack cocaine pipe and an empty stamp bag of suspected heroin. A female officer later discovered Holderman had a plastic bag containing what appeared to be heroin hidden on her body.