The victim of a high-profile bus beating was convicted of attempted drug distribution Monday in Baltimore City District Court.
Sarah Kreager, 26, pleaded not guilty but agreed to a Baltimore City police officer?s statement of facts, which alleged that on Oct. 18 she attempted to sell him prescription drugs while he was working undercover.
Judge Theodore Oshrine sentenced her to 18 months of probation.
“It?s still a pretty serious charge, whether it?s cocaine, heroin, oxycodone or other pills,” Oshrine said.
Outside the courtroom, Kreager said she tried to sell the undercover officer drugs because she believed he was an addict and wanted to help him.
“It wassympathy for a person from a person who used to be addicted,” she said. “I thought I was helping someone. He approached me.”
Kreager said she should have referred the man to a hospital or clinic, where he could have sought professional help.
“I made an error in judgment, and I want to take full responsibility for that error,” she said.
A Baltimore City police officer was undercover walking in the 2000 block of Maryland Avenue, an area known for illegal narcotic activity, when he encountered Kreager, her boyfriend, Troy Ennis, and her three children, according to charging documents.
Kreager, who was homeless at the time of her arrest, offered to sell the undercover officer the prescription drugs Phenergans and Percocet, police said.
“I can get you any kind of pill you want,” Kreager told the officer, charging documents state.
Kreager?s attorney, Uchenna Joseph, said Kreager agreed to the statement of facts because she was worried about being thrown behind bars.
“She didn?t want to go to jail,” Joseph said.
“It?s illegal to sell drugs of any kind unless you?re a pharmacist.”
Kreager said she still suffers from the injuries sustained when she was brutally beaten aboard a Maryland Transit Administration bus in Baltimore.
Last month, Baltimore City Juvenile Judge David Young convicted four teens ? two females and two males ? of first-degree assault in the beating of Kreager and Ennis, 30, on the No. 27 bus Dec. 4. A fifth student, a male, was convicted of second-degree assault against only Ennis.
The five teens are scheduled to be sentenced April 23.
Kreager said she?s hoping to put the whole incident behind her.
“We?re trying to get back to a normal life,” she said.
