A 24-year-old Longmont woman accused of serving as a top-level dealer in a drug ring, which police say moved pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine in and around Longmont, pleaded guilty on Monday morning to organized crime and three felony drug distribution charges.
Alyssa Kurtz faces up to 48 years in prison for the second-degree felony violation of the Colorado Organized Crime and Control Act charge and up to 16 years each on drug distribution charges, according to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutor Ken Kupfner said the drug charges require prison terms, but the plea agreement does not stipulate how long the judge may choose to sentence her or whether the prison terms will run consecutively or concurrently.
She was indicted with 16 others last year in the first of two rounds of grand jury indictments that resulted from the case.
Kurtz pleaded not guilty to 40 charges in January, including two organized crime counts and 37 drug-possession, distribution and conspiracy charges. She also was charged with one count of misdemeanor child abuse.
Prosecutors dismissed the remaining 36 charges against her as part of her plea deal.
Kurtz and her boyfriend James Romero were accused of serving as high-level dealers in a methamphetamine and cocaine ring that police spent months investigating as part of Operation Private Dancer, which was named for the couple because they met while she was an exotic dancer in Denver.
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