ROCKLAND, Maine — A Union woman has avoided a jail term for drug dealing because she is on dialysis.

Justice Daniel Billings warned 36-year-old Elise Daniels on Thursday that her sentence was atypical.

“This is not a get-out-of-jail-free card to be used time and time again,” Billings said.

Daniels pleaded guilty Thursday in Knox County Superior Court to trafficking in Suboxone. She was sentenced to four years in jail with the entire sentence suspended. She also was placed on probation for three years and fined $400.

According to Assistant Attorney General Katie Sibley, a cooperating informant contacted Daniels to see if she could get some drugs. Agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency observed the drug transaction that occurred April 3, 2014, in a car in Thomaston in which Daniels provided the informant with two Suboxone strips for $60.

Daniels originally was indicted in October on the Suboxone charge. She also was charged on April 4 in Rockland with aggravated trafficking in Ritalin within 1,000 feet of a school or safe zone. That charge was dismissed.

A co-defendant in the Ritalin case was sentenced in January to four years with all but six months suspended.

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