CONVENT — A LaPlace man avoided an extended jail sentence after pleading guilty last week to drug dealing.

Charles Rose, 23, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute a schedule I controlled dangerous substance. According to the D.A.’s office of the 23rd Judicial District, Rose’s three-year jail sentence, with credit for time served, was suspended in favor of being placed on three years supervised probation.

In other courthouse news from July 31 to Aug. 4 rendered in St. James Parish:

• Broderick Payne, 35, of Paulina, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to distribute a schedule II controlled dangerous substance and attempted possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Payne was sentenced to 17 years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections and given credit for time served on each count.

Public Information Officer Tyler Cavalier said Payne was ordered to serve five years of the imposed sentences, with seven years of the drug sentence suspended. The five-year firearm sentence was ordered to run concurrent with the drug sentence. Upon release from incarceration, Payne is to be placed on seven years supervised probation.

• Tashana Mason, 31, of Donaldsonville, pleaded guilty to possession of a schedule II controlled dangerous substance and was sentenced to three years with the corrections department suspended. Mason was placed on three years supervised probation.

Assistant District Attorney Adam Koenig prosecuted the cases in front of Judge Thomas Kliebert.