Alexis Kristine Clarkson, 27, of Arnold has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to felony drug possession and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. She already was on probation after pleading guilty to two previous felony charges, court records show.
Jefferson County Div. 12 Associate Circuit Judge Antonio Manansala sentenced Clarkson on Oct. 26 to 10 years each for three felony drug possession charges and 30 days in jail each for two misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia charges. Those sentences will be served concurrently, or at the same, but consecutively with seven-year prison sentences she received in 2017 and 2020 after pleading guilty to felony drug possession and receiving stolen property, court documents said.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Lindsay Whalen handled the case.
Clarkson’s most recent arrest happened on Jan. 11 when she was found in a Quality Inn hotel room, 1200 W. Gannon Drive, in Festus with methamphetamine and marijuana and drug paraphernalia. She also had suboxone, a prescription medication used to treat opioid addiction, in her pocket, the probable-cause statement in the case said.
At the time, she already was on probation for the previous felony convictions. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for each of those two charges, to be served concurrently, but after completing a treatment program, she was placed on five years’ probation, according to court documents.
Clarkson currently is at the Chillicothe Correctional Center.