LISBON — A Salem woman who previously pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault for striking a teacher/coach near a Salem school bus stop, along with multiple drug counts, is going to prison for at least 14 years or more.

Erin Taggart, 27, West Perry Street, appeared for sentencing Monday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for charges in three separate indictments, before Judge Scott Washam in the morning and Judge Megan Bickerton in the afternoon.

The sentence for each case was ordered served consecutive to the other two cases.

The first sentence, issued by Washam, stemmed from the Jan. 26, 2022 accident when Taggart fled a traffic stop by Salem police and struck the man at the bus stop at South Union Avenue and Franklin after some children had been dropped off.

She received a sentence of five to seven and a half years in prison for the aggravated vehicular assault, plus an additional year for failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, both felonies. A term of 180 days for operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol was ordered served at the same time. She received credit for 313 days served in jail, was given a mandatory fine of $375 and her driver’s license was suspended for life.

Bickerton issued a sentence of three to four and a half years for a charge of aggravated possession of drugs, a second-degree felony, with concurrent (at the same time) terms of 18 months each for two counts aggravated possession of drugs, a third-degree felony, and illegal conveyance of drugs onto the grounds of a detention facility, a third-degree felony, related to her possession of methamphetamine and having drugs when taken to the jail after the accident, all in January this year. She was also given a mandatory fine of $7,500.

In a separate sentence stemming from a drug raid and search warrant execution at a Lisa Lane, Lisbon property on Dec. 13, 2021, Taggart was sentenced to an indefinite term of five to 10 years in prison and given a mandatory fine of $10,000 for trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, a first-degree felony. During the search, methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and $1,210 were seized.

Taggart also received concurrent sentences of three to four and a half years and a $7,500 mandatory fine for aggravated trafficking in drugs, 12 months for trafficking in cocaine and nine months for aggravated possession of drugs, all felonies.

All together, the consecutive sentences equal a minimum of at least 14 years in prison, with any additional time up to the parole board.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— Johnathon Weaver, 35, Bye Road, East Palestine, pleaded guilty to failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony, and prosecutor’s information for felonies of receiving stolen property, aggravated possession of drugs, possession of cocaine and possession of fentanyl-related compound, with sentencing Feb. 3. Charges for failure to stop after an accident, driving under suspension, resisting arrest and obstructing official business will be dismissed. All the charges stem from an incident May 12, 2022 when Weaver fled from police. The drugs involved included methamphetamine, cocaine and a fentanyl-related compound.

— Crystal Michelle Evans, 35, Benton Road, Salem, was placed under community control on probation for three years and was ordered to serve 30 days in the county jail for failure to provide notice of change of address, a third-degree felony. Evans entered a guilty plea this fall. As a registered sex offender, Evans is required to provide her address to the county sheriff’s office and failed to notify the sheriff’s office of her change of address on Jan. 27, 2022.

— Journey Mykal Wayts, 30, New Middletown, was placed under community control on probation for three years and ordered to serve 90 days in the county jail for attempted compelling prostitution, a fourth-degree felony. A charge of possession of criminal tools was dismissed as part of the plea agreement reached earlier this fall. Wayts had originally been charged for compelling prostitution for arranging to meet in East Palestine on Aug. 16, 2021 with an undercover officer he believed to be a 16-year-old prostitute, agreeing to pay $80 in exchange for sexual conduct.

— Justine McGee, 31, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, was placed on an intervention plan for three years after pleading guilty to aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for possessing methamphetamine on March 11, 2021.

— Jean E. Tapscott, 34, Youngstown, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for fourth-degree felony charges of trafficking in drugs and possession of drugs, with credit for 110 days already served in jail. Tapscott had originally been scheduled for sentencing in 2018, but failed to appear and was recently picked up on a bench warrant issued four years ago. Tapscott sold heroin, a least 10 grams but less than 50 grams, on Dec. 10, 2016 and was accused of possessing at least a gram of heroin, but less than five grams of heroin. The indictment was issued by the grand jury in August 2017.