Bloomfield woman, Bernie man sentenced to prison for methamphetamine crime

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Bernie, Mo., man and a Bloomfield woman, both charged in connection with a methamphetamine lab in a Bloomfield apartment, have been sentenced to prison. The pair, 39-year-old Keith Leon Allen of Bernie and Nicole Lovena Ferguson, 35, of Bloomfield, were nabbed by Stoddard County Sheriff's Department deputies at Ferguson's home on South Prairie Street in Bloomfield after an investigation into the suspected manufacture of methamphetamine, according to Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner. Following guilty pleas from both of those charged, Allen will be serving a 10-year prison sentence and Ferguson will serve seven years. While Allen pleaded guilty to both charges, Ferguson pleaded guilty only to the possession of methamphetamine charge.