Swampscott woman gets probation for drug charges

LAWRENCE – A Swampscott woman who admitted to various narcotic charges Tuesday in Lawrence Superior Court was placed on five years of probation with conditions she receive drug treatment and counseling.Paris Larrabee, 25, last known address of 55 Hillside Ave., Swampscott, changed her plea to guilty to a series of drug possession charges stemming from her arrest in Saugus last year.Judge Richard E. Welch, III, accepted her plea and imposed the recommendation offered to the court by Assistant District Attorney Marcia H. Slingerland and defense lawyer Neil Hourihan.On Jan. 25, 2006, a state trooper stopped David G. Woodworth and his passenger, Paris Larrabee, traveling south on Route 1 in Saugus for crossing several lanes.Inside the center console the trooper found 37-plus grams of cocaine and over $3,000 in cash.Anti-depressant drugs Valium and Paxil were found in Larrabee?s pocketbook along with cocaine residue and two scales.Three weeks later on Feb. 17, she again was arrested in Saugus in a car on Broadway with drugs and hypodermic needles and syringes.Slingerland agreed to drop the most serious charge – trafficking over 28 grams of cocaine – as part of the plea concession in connection with the January case.Woodworth, 44, of Lynn, awaits trial on the case. He also is serving a prison term of up to three years after admitting earlier this month to cocaine and heroin possession charges involving a 2005 drug case out of Peabody.Woodworth is the same man who allegedly struggled with an undercover state trooper attempting to arrest him last month ending with police manhunt for nearly three hours before he was arrested in Peabody.