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Prohibited ‘I love you’ phone call leads to incarceration

A man and woman were told not to be in contact with each other after the man was found instructing the woman on how to sell drugs

By C1 Staff

DETROIT, Mich. — A couple who were previously told to not have any contact with each other are now facing longer sentences for a phone conversation to tell each other “I love you” and ask after their children.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Keeley Marie Sanders-Masch and Weston Gabriel now face probation violation hearings after they spoke on the phone despite court-ordered probation requirements prohibiting them from having contact.

Both apologized to the court, but Judge Miriam Cavanaugh was not moved. She told Sanders-Masch that she knew the risk and chose to ignore it, and said that King was unable to abide by the court’s orders even while under the strictest supervision.

Sanders-Masch received seven months in the county jail while King received an 18-month to four-year prison sentence.

King was originally sentenced to one year in the county jail for aiding the delivery of less than 50 grams of controlled substances and for instructing Sanders-Masch how much methadone and other prescription medications to sell while he was incarcerated in the county jail on a separate felonious assault and domestic violence incidents against Sanders-Masch.

Sanders-Masch was originally sentenced to six months in the jail and two years of probation for five counts of delivering drugs.

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