Wynonna Judd‘s daughter, Grace Pauline Kelley, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
PEOPLE confirms the 22-year-old, whose father is Judd’s first husband Arch Kelley, is currently behind bars at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning, Tennessee, and has been serving her jail time since April.
Kelley’s release date is Aug. 10, 2025, but she is eligible for parole on Feb. 4, 2019.
A rep for Judd did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Kelley was sentenced to prison for leaving a court-mandated drug recovery program, violating her probation, according to Radar Online, which also reported that her arrest was issued in November 2017.
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Months prior, in May 2017, she pled guilty to meth manufacture, delivery, sale and possession with intent in Williamson County Court. She was also charged with manufacturing and delivering meth in nearby Maury County but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of meth.
A spokesperson for Williamson County Court and Williamson County Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
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Kelley was previously ordered to serve 11 months and 29 days in jail but the sentence was suspended and instead, her jail time was to be served on probation after 30 days in jail in March 2017 followed by 180 days in-house rehab program.
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2017 was not the only year of ups and downs for Kelley.
In December 2015, she was arrested in a Walgreens parking lot in Nashville and in May 2016 was charged with promotion of meth manufacture to which she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possessing meth, according to Radar Online. That same year, she was arrested in Alabama for being a “fugitive from justice,” and her probation was revoked.
Wynonna Judd‘s daughter, Grace Pauline Kelley, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after violating probation in November.
According to RadarOnline, the country star’s 22-year-old daughter has landed herself time at West Tennessee State Penitentiary after leaving a drug recovery program last year and violating her probation.
The troubled superstar’s child has reportedly been in and out of prison in both Tennessee and Alabama for drug-related charges over the past two years.
Kelley, the daughter of Judd and her first husband, Arch Kelley, has a history with the law that goes back to December 2015, when she was arrested at a Walgreens in Nashville, Tennessee.
According to the Daily Mail, cops caught Kelley and a man, Richard Wilcutt, in a car with an improperly installed license plate in the parking lot of the drugstore. During their questioning, pseudoephedrine and a receipt for Coleman fuel were found in a bag that had been thrown outside of their car. As the items are ingredients typically used to cook meth, both Wilcutt and Kelley were arrested on charges of meth manufacture promotion.
A year later, Kelley was arrested in Alabama and was cited as a fugitive from the law.
In May 2017, Kelley pleaded guilty to cooking and selling meth, according to Radar. Though she was originally supposed to go behind bars for almost a year, the outlet reported that her sentence was changed to probation after only 30 days locked up. Kelley was then released the following month from Williamson County Detention Center, where she continued her court-ordered drug program, but has since broken the probation.
“The defendant was terminated from the recovery court program on November 21, 2017,” a spokesperson for Williamson County told Radar. “A warrant for probation violation was issued on November 22, 2017, and served on December 16, 2017.”
If Kelley serves out her eight-year sentence, her release date from prison would be 2025, though she may be eligible for parole in 2019.
A rep for Judd did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment.
Wynonna Judd's 22-year-old daughter, Grace Pauline Kelley, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after breaking the terms of probation she received on drug charges in 2017.
Radar Online reports that Kelley pleaded guilty to the manufacture, delivery, sale and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute on May 26, 2017, in Williamson County Court in Tennessee. Williamson County is an affluent rural county outside of Nashville that is home to a number of country music stars, including Wynonna Judd.
She also faced charges of manufacturing and delivering meth in nearby Maury County, but entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of possession.
Kelley received a suspended sentence of 11 months and 29 days in jail and a fine of $3,092.50. She received an additional sentence of four years after pleading guilty to evading arrest, which was also suspended. That would have allowed her to serve the balance of her sentence on probation after she completed 30 days in jail in March of 2017, under the condition that she first complete a 180-day in-house rehab program.
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A Williamson County spokesperson tells Radar that Kelley was released from custody in June of 2017 and continued her sentence at a court-ordered rehab, but she left the rehab program on Nov. 19, violating the terms of her probation.
“The defendant was terminated from the recovery court program on November 21, 2017," the source says. "A warrant for probation violation was issued on November 22, 2017, and served on December 16, 2017."
“Her probation was revoked on February 8, 2018,” the spokesman says. “She was sentenced to serve eight years. The meth manufacture, delivery, sale and possession with intent charges run concurrent with charges at Maury County.”
Kelley was sentenced to eight years at West Tennessee State Penitentiary, but she'll be eligible for parole on Feb. 4, 2019. Her projected release date is Aug. 10, 2025, but she is expected to serve just 30 percent of her sentence, according to the report.
Grace Pauline Kelley is Wynonna Judd's second child by her first husband, Arch Kelley. The couple divorced in 1998. She has been in and out of the news over the years; in 2014, her aunt, Ashley Judd, sought temporary custody of Grace after the then 17-year-old reported that her mother drank excessively, took pills and was verbally abusive. Judd has denied those claims.
In 2015 Kelley was arrested at a Walgreen's in Nashville and charged with promotion of meth manufacture after police found a bag containing items used for making meth in a plastic bag an eyewitness saw thrown from her car. She pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of possession and received probation, which was revoked in November 2016 after she was arrested in Alabama as a fugitive from justice. The violation of that probation resulted in her charges being sent over to drug court, resulting in her most recent round of legal woes.
Wynonna Judd has not commented publicly on her daughter's sentencing.
Wynonna Judd’s 22-year-old daughter, Grace Pauline Kelley, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for violating her probation from a previous drug arrest, Us Weekly can confirm.
“It’s confirmed that Grace Pauline Kelley is serving an eight-year sentence at West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning, Tennessee,” Robert Reburn, PIO East Tennessee tells Us. “Grace’s probation was revoked on February 8, 2018. Grace was given a eight year sentence for scheduled two drugs (meth) in June of 2016 and another four year sentence for evading arrest in July 2016. Her sentence doesn’t set to expire until August 2025.”
Radar Online reports Judd’s daughter pleaded guilty to meth manufacture, delivery, sale and possession with intent in Williamson County in May 2017. She was ordered by a Tennessee judge to play $3,092.50 in fines. Kelley also pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of meth in Maury County.
Judd, 54, and her ex-husband, Arch Kelley, welcomed Grace in 1996. They are also parents of 23-year-old son Elijah. They tied the knot in January 1996 when country singer was pregnant with their daughter, but called it quits in 1998. (Judd rose to fame in the ‘80s alongside her mother, Naomi Judd, as the country music duo The Judds. Her half-sister, Ashley Judd, is an actress.)
This is not Grace’s first run-in with the law. She was arrested in December 2015 at a Walgreen’s drug store, according to Radar, and again in 2016 for possession of meth. The outlet added that in November 2016, Grace was arrested in Alabama for being a “fugitive from justice” and as a result, her probation was revoked.
Judd and Arch have yet to publicly comment on their daughter’s sentence.
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