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Chasity Dawn Ross, 36, of Morganton, will serve six to eight years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine by possession following her plea in Catawba County Superior Court on Thursday.

Ross was sentenced after she pleaded guilty to the charge, according to a release from District Attorney Scott Reilly’s office.

In addition to her prison sentence, Ross also will have to pay a fine of $50,000, according to the release.

Ross was charged after Hickory Police Department officers responded to a call about an unresponsive person in a vehicle at a convenience store. When officers arrived, they found Ross in the car with bags of drugs and other paraphernalia, the release said.

She refused to hand over the bags, but when she got out of the car, the bags fell off her and were retrieved. Analysis showed the bags contained a trafficking amount of methamphetamine, the release said.

This is not Ross’ first time being sentenced to prison. She has been convicted in Burke, McDowell, Gaston and Forsyth counties on various charges, including drug charges, obtaining property by false pretenses, larceny, possession of stolen goods, uttering a forged paper/instrument, resisting an officer and driving while intoxicated, according to the N.C. Department of Correction.