Bristol Township Heroin Dealer Headed To Jail

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, PA — A Bristol Township woman who authorities said sold heroin while on federal supervision for drug-dealing elsewhere was sentenced Wednesday to two to four years in state prison, the Bucks County District Attorney's office announced.

Janet Schonewolf, 50, of Croydon pleaded guilty in March to charges including possession with intent to deliver heroin. In October, she was found in possession of 310 bags of heroin, $2,532 cash, 45 Xanax pills and drug paraphernalia.

She told authorities she sold drugs to support her family, including her 12-year-old son.

At the time of her arrest, Schonewolf was still under federal supervision for a conviction in Utah for possessing methamphetamine with intent to deliver.

"Selling heroin when it is becoming an epidemic, you are contributing to that," Bucks County Common Pleas Court Judge Wallace Bateman said to her at sentencing. "There is really nothing mitigating about your case. It is really troubling to me that you would be selling (controlled substances) when you were under supervision for the same thing."