Medina woman sentenced to jail for violating probation

ALBION – A Medina woman was sentenced to six months in the Orleans County Jail today by Judge Sanford Church for violating her probation.

Erica Davis, 35, also faces a new charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree. She is next to appear in County Court on Jan. 3.

She was on probation for criminal contempt in the first degree for intimidating a witness and also for resisting arrest. She admitted today in court to possessing crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia and to resisting arrest.

Judge Church found those to be significant violations of her terms of probation and sentenced her to six months in the county jail.

Davis also was charged in October for allegedly selling crack cocaine in Medina along with codefendant Demarques “Dutch” Underwood. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 15 to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and could face up to six years in prison when he is sentenced on March 6.

In other cases in County Court today:

• District Attorney Joe Cardone made a plea offer to Erika Poole, 43, of Medina to plead guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and face up to eight years in state prison as a second felony offender.

Cardone said Poole is facing her fourth felony drug charge. She is accused of allegedly selling more than a half ounce of cocaine.

Her attorney asked for time to consider the offer. Poole is next scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 3.

• A Rochester man who allegedly tried to bring cocaine and fentanyl into the Orleans Correctional Facility had his sentencing pushed back until Jan. 10.

Lavar Green, 46, faces 2 to 4 years in prison for attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree. He allegedly brought the drugs to the state prison in Albion on Nov. 12, 2022.

Green is a second-felony offender and previously served 15 years in prison for first-degree robbery, from 2004 to 2019.