Two felony charges of complicity to breaking and entering, and tampering with evidence were merged as part of the plea.
The plea comes less than two weeks after Mullins testified in the trial of Marcus Miller, 18, who was found guilty of breaking and entering, tampering with evidence, vandalism and grand theft to taking the animal — named Masterpiece and valued at $8,000 — from Jeff Pergram’s Browns Run Farm in January.
A second teen, Nicholas Reynolds, 18, was sentenced in October to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to his part in the incident and to charges of attempted failure to comply with a police officer for an incident that occurred later in the year.
Assistant Prosecutor David Kash said Mullins’ part in the crime was driving the teens to Pergram’s farm and transporting the them to an abandoned barn in Montgomery County, where the dead animal was dumped.
“Marcus Miller and Nicholas Reynolds were the actual perpetrators of the beating and killing of the alpaca,” Kash said. “She did not actually involve herself in the beating of the alpaca.”
The plea bargain was in exchange for Mullins’ cooperation in the cases against the two teens.
She faces 18 months in prison for the felony charge and 90 days in the Butler County Jail for the animal cruelty charge. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 24.
Mullins still faces a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor in juvenile court in connection with the incident with Reynolds later in the year. That event resulted in him wrecking her car after allegedly drinking alcohol, according to prosecutors.
Miller, who faces up to 9½ years in prison, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 13 by Butler County Common Pleas Judge Keith Spaeth.
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