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Woman gets 45 days for her role in jail escape

LISBON — An East Liverpool woman who pleaded to an obstructing justice charge for her role in assisting Anthony R. Wagoner when he escaped from the county jail in June of 2019 was sentenced to 45 days in the county jail on Friday.

Sonya Shasteen, 44, Cadmus Street, East Liverpool, told Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton she was the one who had put Wagoner in jail after a six and a half year relationship, which included him destroying her house and her vehicle. She further claimed she was at the store when Wagoner was apprehended and had no idea he had come back to her house.

Assistant County Prosecutor Alec Beech said the three inmates walking away from the jail cost the county a lot of manpower hours and while looking for Wagoner, authorities had come to Shasteen’s home, a place he was known to frequent. She denied him being there and he was later found in the vicinity of her home.

Additionally, Beech said since then Shasteen has been convicted of some misdemeanor drug-related charges and was bound over to the grand jury on another felony charge.

County Municipal Court records show she was bound over on a first-degree felony trafficking in drugs charge alleging more than 908 grams of methamphetamines, divided into six packages, were found in 2003 Chevy Impala in East Palestine on Oct. 1, 2019, and information on a cell phone allegedly indicating Shasteen and her co-defendant, Brian Cramer, were trafficking in methamphetamines. The amount of methamphetamines found was more than 100 times the bulk amount.

Shasteen’s defense attorney James Wise indicated Shasteen had a very difficult relationship with Wagoner and a protection order against him. Shasteen called it a matter of the “wrong guy at the wrong time.”

Bickerton said there are two sides to every story and it sounds suspicious to her that authorities knew to look for him at her house. Additionally, Bickerton noted she was concerned Shasteen was out on bond and getting involved in other serious criminal offenses.

Shasteen was given credit for seven days already served leaving her with 38 days remaining to serve. She will then be placed on community control for three years.

djohnson@mojonews.com

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