Twenty-four-year-old Tricia Tundo will serve five years probation, avoiding a possible one-and-a-half year jail sentence after pleading guilty in July to the unlawful disposal of the precursor materials to methamphetamine.
Tundo appeared before Genesee County Court Judge Robert Noonan this morning, visibly pregnant and much less gaunt than in previous court appearances. Defense attorney Tom Williams spoke on Tundo's behalf, saying she has attended counseling and passed multiple drug tests since she was released from custody following the meth bust at her South Byron home in April.
"I know nothing of the effects of this drug on the body, but I can tell you that Ms. Tundo's appearance has changed dramatically since I first met her at Wyoming County Correctional Facility several months ago," Williams said. "She appears in good spirits...she's no longer looking so sickly and thin."
Williams also made note to Judge Noonan that Tundo is expecting her first child in the second week of November.
Noonan maintained that Tundo "has not fully acknowledged an awareness of the drug activity that surrounded her." But he noted that this is Tundo's first criminal offense, and spared her the jail time. Tundo's driver's license will also be suspended.
Meanwhile, a check of county court records revealed today that Matthew Zon is two weeks into his prison sentence for his role in the South Byron meth lab. Zon was sentenced on Sept. 13 to three years in prison, followed by five years probation. As part of his plea deal, Zon forfeited ownership of a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck.
Zon and Tundo were stopped in that truck on April 14, and were charged after they tried to ditch some methamphetamine materials on the side of the road.
This is not Ms. Tundo's first
This is not Ms. Tundo's first child, it is her third, and I would be willing to bet she exposed her other two children to her meth activities. 5 years probation is a slap on the fingers when you think about how much of this poison was made, and put out on the streets by these 2. And what about the unborn child, I'm sure she was using at some point of her pregnancy.
Frank-- Not sure how that
Frank--
Not sure how that word made it in there, I didn't note "first child" in any of my other versions of this story. Hence corrected above.
Officially , neither court nor attorney confirmed exactly what number child this is for her.
So she's not as bad a mama if
So she's not as bad a mama if she only exposed one pregnancy to meth not two or more ?
Not like she stopped voluntarily before the meth bust.