United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Cherish Elissa Kofonis, 35, of Theodore, was sentenced on Feb. 18, 2020, on her guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. She entered the guilty plea in November of 2019.
United States District Court Judge William H. Steele imposed a sentence of time served in Kofonis’ case, which amounted to a period of approximately six months behind bars. The judge placed Kofonis on supervised release for a term of four years. During that time, she will undergo testing and treatment for drug abuse. Kofonis was also ordered to pay $100 in special assessments, but no fine was imposed.
The case was investigated by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted in the United States Attorney’s Office by Assistant United States Attorney Gloria Bedwell.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
