Plea Deal Sends San Angelo Meth Dealer to Prison

SAN ANGELO,  TX – Another San Angelo meth dealer was sent to prison after taking a plea deal from the district attorney's office.

According to court documents, on Feb. 3, officers with the San Angelo Police Department were dispatched to the 600 Murphy St. to assist with a traffic stop.

When the officers arrived they spoke with Laura Tapia, 40, and learned that there was a meth pipe inside of the vehicle. Tapia admitted that the pipe was hers which led officers to search the car. During the search officers found the pipe as well as a bag containing 12 grams of methamphetamine. 

Tapia was arrested and charged with manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance. She was booked into the Tom Green County Detention Facility and remained in jail on a $105,000 bond until the end of her trial.

A little over a month later the district attorney's office offered Tapia a plea deal to get the case off the ever-growing docket. In the deal Tapia would plea guilty in exchange for eight years in prison. Tapia accepted the deal on Mar. 25.

She was transferred from the Tom Green County Jail on June 1 and is now in state prison.