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Suzanne Corona can avoid prison on drug sales conviction if she can stay out of trouble

By Howard B. Owens

Though she admitted to selling $60 worth of suboxone to an undercover agent of the Local Drug Task Force, Suzanne Corona won't be going to prison, at least so long as she can abide by the terms and conditions of her probationary sentence.

Corona, often in trouble with the law from 2010 to 2014, had never faced a felony charge until her arrest for criminal sale of a controlled substance earlier this year.

She entered a guilty plea to that charge Aug. 3 and though Judge Robert C. Noonan predicted a prison term for Corona, on the recommendation of the county's Probation Department and without objection from the District Attorney's Office, Noonan granted Corona probation.

If she abides by the terms, she avoids time by prison.

Corona made headlines worldwide when she was arrested on an adultery charge in 2010 after being observed in an apparent sexual act with a man not her husband on a picnic table in Farrell Park. Then came accusations of shoplifting from a local restaurant, which led to a disturbance there and Corona being wheeled away on a gurney into a waiting ambulance, and various other shoplifting charges, including an arrest at Target on a day when a Sheriff's deputy was there doing a K-9 demonstration.

For a long stretch after that, Corona seemed to avoid getting into trouble and then came the drug sales arrest.

(Our news partner WBTA assisted with this report.)

Elizabeth Downie

If you do not discipline a child, they will continue to be delinquent. Corona is NOT a child; she is a grown adult who KNOWS right from wrong!!! STOP ALLOWING HER TO GET AWAY SCOTT FREE! PUT HER IN JAIL! Maybe THEN she'll learn!

Sep 30, 2015, 10:29am Permalink
Lorie Cook

She makes a mockery of her "sentences" all of them. She seems to have no will to help herself. So yeah, just slap her hand. That has worked thus far. Ridiculous.

Sep 30, 2015, 9:26pm Permalink
Ed Hartgrove

I've often wondered where David Bromberg got his inspiration for the song "Sharon" from. Somehow, I think I understand, now!

For those that have never heard the catchy tune, it starts out like this:

"I was at this carnival just a few years ago. No big deal, Ferris wheel, the same old stuff, you know. I wandered around the grounds until I found this little tent. A man outside made a speech, and this is how it went:
She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile. It was the same old line, except for one part. Said it don't cost no money - you got to pay with your heart.
Oh Sharon, what do you do to these men? You know the same rowdy crowd that was here last night - is back again."

A 6-minute version can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZJdMzkY_C4

What's the old saying? Some women are just born hypnotic!

Oct 1, 2015, 5:22am Permalink
tom hunt

Great song Ed. It is the same reason women are drawn to the dirty unshaven, tattoo covered biker types. The moth is always drawn to the open flame!

Oct 1, 2015, 7:45am Permalink

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