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Mother of convicted killer sentencedWoman pleads no contest to drug, weapon chargesBy Sheila Stogsdlllnews@jopl ingl obe. comMIAMI, Okla. — The mother of convicted killer Jeremy Jones decided to forgo a trial by judge and pleaded no contest Tuesday to drug and weapon charges, court officials said.Jeanne Beard, 50, of Miami, was assessed a five-year deferred sentence and fined $2,000 for possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school She is required to serve 10 days In the Ottawa County Jail 'beginning April 9.She also was assessed a one-year deferred sentence and fined $150 for possession of drug paraphernalia. The sentences are to run concurrentlyOne count of possession of a firearm while committing a felony was dropped.In August, Beard entered a blind plea of guilty to the charges, but she withdrew the plea in December and requested a trial by judge. A blind plea is entered without any agreements with the district attorney’soffice regarding sentencing.In an October 2005 raid at Beard’s home, Miami police found methamphetamine, a.scale, plastic bags and 23 weapons, including a loaded, 25-caliber derringer. Police also seized surveillance'equipment.District Attorney Eddie Wyant said there were never any discussions with Jones about dropping the charges against his mother in exchange for more information about the whereabouts of Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible, two teenagers missing from the Welch area since Dec. 30,1999.No local chargesJeremy Jones has not been charged with any the unsolved murders on file in Northeast Oklahoma.Jones, a former construction worker from Miami, has been identified by authorities as a suspect in several unsolved crimes in Northeast Oklahoma, including the slayings of Danny Oakley, 38, and Doris Harris, 39, of rural Grove, and the murders of Danny and Kathy Freeman, of Welch, and the disappearance of their daughter, Ashley, and her friend Bible, both 18,Authorities in June 2005 searched an area near Galena, Kan,, for the girls’ bodies without success. Authorities said Jones confessed to killing the girls but later denied having made the confession.Jones was convicted, and sentenced to death in October 2005 for the MM rape and shooting death of a Mobile County, Ala., woman. The case 'is. now on appeal.He is charged in Georgia with the murder of a 18-year-old girl in March 2004, and in Louisiana with the rape and strangulation of a 45-year-old prostitute whose body was found in February 2004 in New Orleans,
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