Woman sentenced for trying to deliver meth to inmate

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A Brandon woman has been sentenced to five years in prison with three-and-a-half years suspended, after she pled guilty to one felony count of attempting to distribute a controlled substance.

Melissa Rae Cockerham, 46, was sentenced Monday in Minnehaha County Circuit Court, after earlier pleading guilty to attempting to pass an illegal drug to an inmate at the Sioux Falls State Penitentiary, according to the South Dakota Attorney General’s office.

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Cockerham attempted to throw a package over the prison wall to an inmate on Nov. 11, 2023. The package had more than five grams of meth. The package didn’t make it over the wall and was found by staff…

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