Woman receives prison term

COEUR d’ALENE — A Careywood woman was sentenced Thursday to 3 1/2 years in state prison for probation violations related to two prior convictions for possession of methamphetamine.

Kari Nichole Lazer, 31, was sentenced by 1st District Judge Benjamin Simpson, who ordered the first 1 1/2 years would be fixed, and the remaining two years indeterminate, with credit for time served.

She admitted to violating two terms of her probation, including driving under the influence of drugs and failing to provide a urine sample when requested by law enforcement.

Lazer was sentenced in the first methamphetamine possession case on Oct. 24, 2005, to 75 days of jail, three years supervised probation, and fines and costs.

Then, on Oct. 31, 2007, she was sentenced for a second methamphetamine possession case to 45 days of jail, and her probation was extended by three years on the first case.