Colorado prosecutor pleads guilty to drug charge, misconduct

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A district attorney who serves a large area of northeastern Colorado, including Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips Counties, has pleaded guilty to a drug charge stemming from an investigation by the state’s attorney general.

Brittny Lewton, who serves Colorado’s 13th Judicial District, struck a deal with prosecutors in the attorney general’s office and pleaded guilty Monday to possession of a controlled substance, unlawful conduct on public property and second-degree official misconduct. She was sentenced to two years of supervised probation.

Lewton was accused of taking a bottle of prescription opioid painkiller from one of her employees and ingesting the pills at home.