Woman sentenced for knowing about husband’s drug trafficking
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) – The wife of an Army National Guard member and former Marine has been sentenced to five years’ probation for knowing about her husband’s drug-trafficking trade but not reporting it.
The Sun Herald reports Judge Sul Ozerden also ordered 44-year-old Regina Cooper on Tuesday to pay $2,500 and to serve eight months of her sentence under house arrest.
Cooper pleaded guilty to misprision of felony. Her husband, David Cooper, had pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute Xanax. His sentencing is set for later this week.
Authorities arrested the couple on federal charges of conspiring to distribute meth, Ecstasy, alprazolam and synthetic narcotics between December 2012 and June 2014. A Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics says David Cooper’s customers included some members of the military.
