A Jefferson County judge has sentenced a Ste. Genevieve woman to 10 years in prison for delivering a controlled substance. The woman was found with methamphetamine after an Arnold Police officer stopped to help her change a tire, according to court records.
Kendra Plunk, 38, on Feb. 4 pleaded guilty to the felony drug charge and was sentenced by Jefferson County Div. 1 Circuit Judge Jospeh Alfred Rathert.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Justin T. Owens prosecuted the case.
Plunk currently is in the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, and she is serving the 10-year sentence concurrently, or at the same time, with other sentences she has received that totaled eight years in prison, court documents show.
Plunk also has been sentenced to prison for three counts of possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence and second-degree drug trafficking, court records said.
According to the probable-cause statement filed for the delivery charge, an Arnold Police officer in May 2023 stopped to help Plunk after seeing her changing a tire on a rented 2019 Buick Encore near the intersection of Sunset Drive and Jeffco Boulevard.
While assisting Plunk, the officer saw a bag containing a white rock-like substance, suspected of being meth. The officer arrested Plunk and then searched the SUV, where he found two more bags with rock-like substances inside them, two digital scales and six unused bags similar to those that had meth inside them, the report said.
Plunk was taken to the Police Station, where she hid multiple pills, tablets and capsules in a seat, and she tried to conceal a syringe and illegal substances in a clenched fist, according to the report.