MENOMINEE, MI— A Menominee woman has been sentenced for stealing a credit card and trying to bring drugs into a jail.
Menominee County Prosecutor Jeffrey Rogg says Terry Kortz, 37, took a credit card that was inadvertently left at a cash register and immediately tried to spend more than $500 online and in other ways.
In another case, police searched Kortz’ vehicle and found meth and suboxone, along with drug paraphernalia. At the jail, she was put through a body scanner, where a foreign object was detected. Kortz lied until officers conducted a strip search, when she gave up more meth from within her body.
She was convicted by plea of illegal use of a financial transaction device and prisoner possessing contraband, but failed to show up for sentencing in August.
Kortz was sentenced Friday to 14 months to 4 years in the first case and 14 months to 5 years in the second. The sentences will be served concurrently.
