A Bayard woman has been given a suspended sentence for several drug charges stemming from an investigation by the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office that occurred last July.

Court documents show that a jury trial found 40-year-old Laura Jean Smith guilty of conspiring to manufacture, deliver and/or possess with intent to deliver methamphetamine, a class C felony, and was given a 10 year prison sentence. The sentence was then suspended and Smith was placed on three years probation. She was also convicted of gathering where meth is unlawfully used, a class D felony, and was given a suspended five year prison sentence and placed on three years probation. Her third conviction was for keeping a premises or other environment for drugs, an aggravated misdemeanor, and was given a suspended two year prison sentence and ordered to serve two years probation. All sentences are to be served concurrently, and the three other charges in the case were dismissed at Smith’s cost. She was also ordered to pay over $6,000 in fines, restitution, court costs, supervision fees, and surcharges. Smith was arrested and charged on July 10th, when sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant in the 100 block of Prairie Street in Bayard.