BURLINGTON — A woman who was part of a duo who styled themselves as a 21st century “Bonnie and Clyde” while on a crime spree around the Upper Valley in 2021 was handed down a nine-month prison sentence in federal court on Monday after pleading guilty to selling fentanyl and cocaine out of a residence in Roxbury, Vt.

At the time of her apprehension, Amanda Conant, 33, formerly of Randolph, was wanted on multiple warrants for skipping state court dates.

Conant will serve the federal sentence concurrently with prison sentences that are expected to result from plea agreements to pending charges in state court.

That will be followed by three years of supervised release under special conditions, according to an entry made this week in her criminal docket in U.S. District Court in Vermont.

Conant is currently incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, where she has been held on pre-trial detention since January when she was apprehended and charged with robbing a convenience store in Northfield, Vt., the previous November.

Between her pre-trial detention and the end of her prison sentence, Conant is expected to spend a total of 18 months behind bars on the federal charges, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Vermont.

Conant was involved in the distribution of narcotics with a group of other people that operated at different times from addresses in Northfield, Randolph and, finally, Roxbury in Washington County, according to the criminal complaint filed in support of the federal charges.

At the last address, Conant and others were selling cocaine laced with fentanyl to some 40 customers daily, with the fentanyl added into the cocaine “to induce people to come back and buy more,” the complaint stated.

The next step for Conant is disposition of more than a dozen criminal cases pending in Windsor, Orange, Washington and Addison counties. Her numerous felony and misdemeanor charges include grand larceny, burglary into occupied dwellings, possession of stolen property, drug possession, vehicle operation without the owner’s consent and several violations of conditions of release.

Conant, along with alleged accomplice Kevin Bent, also of Randolph, was sought in a string of property crimes in spring 2021, including stealing a Grand Jeep Cherokee from a residence in Pomfret on which they spray painted the words “Bonnie and Clyde 2021,” according to police at the time.

Police located Conant and Bent asleep inside the Jeep at a convenience market in East Randolph, but when they awakened the couple and ordered them out of the vehicle, Bent hit the gas and took off.

Police later that night found the Jeep bogged down in mud in Chelsea, with Conant and Bent having fled the scene on foot.

Bent was subsequently apprehended in East Randolph, where a witness had observed him getting out of a stolen septic truck. Conant was apprehended a few days later in Randolph after a brief attempt to outrun police.

Conant was out on bail in January when she is alleged to have robbed a convenience store of $861 in Northfield.

Filings in Conant’s Vermont Superior Court dockets state that she is expected to enter a change of plea on the charges following sentencing in the federal case.

A change of plea hearing on three pending criminal cases in Washington County against Conant is scheduled for Thursday. A status conference on six pending cases in Orange County is scheduled for Nov. 29, and a status conference on four cases in Windsor County is set for Jan. 23.

No court date has been set yet in the pending Addison County case.

Bent, 34, pleaded guilty in October 2022 to charges in Windsor, Orange, Washington and Addison counties that included burglary, impeding a police officer and unlawful mischief. He was sentenced to a total of 4 to 10 years in state prison, all suspended except two years, and was placed on probation for 10 years, according to Vermont court records.

Bent was paroled into community supervision under the Hartford Probation and Parole office on July 2, according to Department of Corrections records.

Contact John Lippman at jlippman@vnews.com.