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WILKES-BARRE — A Danville woman will spend three years on probation for cooking meth in a building where children lived.

Jessica M. Collett, 29, was sentenced Monday in Luzerne County Court to three years in the county Intermediate Punishment Program (IPP) on one count of manufacturing methamphetamine with a child present, according to court documents.

Judge Michael T. Vough ordered the woman to spend the first year of her sentence on house arrest with electronic monitoring.

Court papers say the case may be transferred to Montour County.

Collett was one of two people arrested and charged in connection with an October 2014 meth-lab explosion inside an apartment on Lee Mine Street, Nanticoke.

Two children had to be evacuated from the building, police say.

Collett pleaded guilty to the felony charge in August.

Collett’s co-defendant, Adam Thomas Longenberger, 28, was sentenced in October to spend one and a half to three years in state prison on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine with a child present and causing a catastrophe.

By James O’Malley

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