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Orange County Attorney Sentenced in Drug Framing of Elementary School Parent Volunteer

In 2011, Kent Easter drove to the victim’s home and planted a bag full of drugs in her car, prosecutors said

An Orange County attorney convicted of plotting with his wife to frame an elementary school parent volunteer with drugs was sentenced Friday to six months in jail, prosecutors said.

After the married couple became angry with the way the volunteer was supervising their son who attended the Irvine school, they decided to have the woman arrested in retaliation, according to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney’s office.

In February 2011, Kent Easter drove to the volunteer's home and planted a bag full of Vicodin, Percocet, marijuana and a used marijuana pipe in her unlocked car, the release said.

He then went to a hotel business center and called Irvine police using a false name, telling officials that he was a concerned parent who had witnessed the volunteer hide a bag of drugs behind the driver’s seat of her car.

Kent Easter and his wife, Jill Easter, "were in constant cellphone and text message contact" throughout the incident, officials said.

Each have been convicted of one felony count of false imprisonment by deceit.

Jill Easter was previously sentenced to one year in jail and three years of formal probation.

Kent Easter's sentence to six months in jail and three years of probation on Friday comes after a mistrial was declared in the same case last year, when a unanimous decision couldn't be reached.

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