Hope Marie Burd, 33, Minot, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, all suspended but the 73 days she has already spent in the Ward County Jail, and three years of supervised probation for arranging to deliver 3.5 grams of meth for $180 to a confidential informant working for the Ward County Narcotics Task Force on Dec. 4, 2018, in Minot.

Burd has also been ordered to pay court costs and to obtain a chemical dependency evaluation.

The state agreed to drop a second Class B felony conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine and a Class B felony delivery of methamphetamine charge against Burd under the terms of a plea deal.

The charges in this particular case were not filed until April 24, nearly 18 months after the offense, and three days after a judge revoked Burd’s probation and ordered her to serve 18 months in prison on a charge of endangerment of a child. Burd had exposed her son, then 13, to methamphetamine and allowed him to live in a filthy house without electricity and running water in May 2019. The meth was in plain view in the bathroom.

In court on Thursday, Burd told Judge Doug Mattson that she has custody of her two younger children, a 15-year-old and a 9-year-old, and they deserve the world.

“I don’t want to sit in jail,” Burd told the judge when he asked what makes this time different from the other time she has been on probation. “I’ve learned my lesson sitting here.”

A prosecutor told Mattson that most of Burd’s past criminal offenses have something to do with her addiction to drugs.

Burd told the judge she wants to go to treatment.

Burd is also accused of slapping fellow inmate Raven Ware across the face during an argument at the Ward County Jail on April 27. The Class B misdemeanor simple assault charge in that case is still pending.

Burd has been held at the Ward County Jail awaiting transport to state prison. Prisoners have been held at the county jail due to COVID-19 restrictions.