Kathleen Marie Hydar, 31, of Fenton pleaded guilty Wednesday (April 3) to federal drug charges and admitted to her role in a burglary at a Jefferson County mobile home that left one of her alleged accomplices dead, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported.
Hydar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 9, a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman said.
If convicted, the federal charge is punishable by a minimum 10-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine.
According to the indictment, Hydar allegedly directed four men to the mobile home in the 700 block of Chancellor Drive in unincorporated Fenton on Oct. 11, 2017, with the intent to steal large amounts of meth, cash and guns, prosecutors said.
Chad Coffman, who lived in the mobile home, pleaded guilty last year to possession with the intent to distribute meth after authorities found five pounds of meth in the home. Coffman is now serving eight years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Hydar reportedly told Paris-John Earnest Devine, Courtney A. Brown, Raymond Christopher Seay and the late Ramone Thomas about the drugs at Coffman’s home, and she and the men went there to burglarize it. Hydar reportedly was waiting outside in a car and the men were inside the home when Coffman showed up, and then Hydar allegedly moved into the driver’s seat of the Kia and drove away with an unindicted person in the back seat, prosecutors said.
The four men ran for the car, but Hydar had already left, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office previously reported.
Before the men fled, however, Thomas allegedly passed a handgun to Brown, who allegedly fired it. The shot struck Thomas, and he was found dead at the scene, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
After the suspects were taken into custody, Brown told authorities he had pointed the gun at the mobile home “to scare” the homeowner and inadvertently fired it, striking Thomas, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Two weeks before the alleged burglary at the Fenton mobile home, Devine allegedly robbed a pizza delivery driver who was trying to buy marijuana in St. Louis and then demanded the man’s 2013 Kia Forte at gunpoint, prosecutors said.
That was the car used in the alleged burglary at the Fenton mobile home, authorities reported.
On Feb. 11, Devine pleaded guilty to carjacking, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine. His sentencing is scheduled for July 9, the report said.
On March 29, Brown pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine. His sentencing is scheduled for June, 25, according to the report.
Seay pleaded guilty on March 13 to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine. His sentencing is scheduled for June 11, the report said.
The case was investigated by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Office, the Major Case Squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.