For the second time in less than three months, a Zanesville woman with a history of falsifying drug prescriptions was sentenced to prison. 

Mykel Lane, 29, told Judge Kelly Cottrill she understood she must go to prison for the 21 felony counts she acquired while filing false prescriptions at several area pharmacies, including Shriver’s, Northside, Kroger, Walmart, Walgreens and Sam’s Club. Not all were successfully filled, however.

Lane was eventually arrested at Kroger on Maple Avenue for shoplifting on Nov. 28. During her arrest, officers found 326 Alprazolam pills in Lane’s possession, as well as containers from Northside Pharmacy. 

During her sentencing, Lane repeated what she told Judge Kelly Cottrill during her plea hearing last month, saying she is ready to change her lifestyle. 

Her attorney, David Mortimer, told Cottrill she has been utilizing different rehabilitative programs during her tenure at the Ohio Reformatory for Women where she is currently serving 16 months after being sentenced on a similar case in April.

Lane said she never feared going to prison in the past, but her perspective changed when she had to write her own obituary while incarcerated. She added that she was tired of the impact her actions had on her family, children and herself. 

Cottrill did not buy Lane’s story and reminded her of her pending case in Kentucky and the four infractions she collected while in prison, including one for obtaining suboxone in April. 

When Cottrill asked Lane why she couldn’t follow the rules, she explained that she was trying, which the judge said was one of the weakest statements ever made.

On her 20 fourth-degree felony counts of deception to obtain dangerous drugs and one third-degree count of possession of drugs, Cottrill sentenced Lane to a total of 36 months in prison to be served concurrently with her prior sentence.