BEATRICE – A Beatrice woman convicted of distributing and possessing methamphetamine will serve a five-year-probation term.
27-year-old Kaylynn Dobbins previously completed the Southeast Nebraska Drug Court Program. The sentencing judge, Rick Schreiner, was the prosecutor at the time Dobbins was going through that program.

"I think you were still having some contact with individuals that we asked you not to. You were also doing something, because it was what you wanted to do, regardless of what the drug court thought you should do. You got out of drug court and here we are.....you're still smarter than the rest of us".

Dobbins was facing a significant prison sentence, but the judge opted for probation with a 90-day jail term, up front.
Schreiner said there will come a time when people are sick of paying Dobbins’ bills, while she hurts others. The judge said he was giving Dobbins one last chance by putting her on probation.

"I you can't take this and turn this into a life where you're not harming others and you wind up in front of me...what do you thing is going to happen"? (Dobbins) "I will get a very long time in prison, and I fully expect to". (Schreiner) "That's the one time, you've been right".

On the distribution count, Dobbins could have received up to 50 years in prison. She was arrested in April of 2019, after a narcotics officer served a search warrant on a Beatrice apartment. The investigator found that Dobbins and two others had made about 90 sales of methamphetamine, from the apartment.

In a separate case Thursday in Gage County District Court, the judge sentenced 37-year-old Jeremy Vater, of Wymore to a three-year prison term and nine months post-release supervision, after finding he violated terms of his probation, given for failure to register every six months as a convicted sex offender.
Vater still faces sentencing in a separate case, of drug possession.

Also in Gage County District Court Thursday afternoon….

34-year-old Chance Corliss, of Shickley, was sentenced to a three-year probation term for attempted possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited person.
20-year-old Hannah Thomsen, of Beatrice was given an 18-month probation term on a conviction of attempted tampering with evidence.