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Sentencing for 28-year-old Nelda Marie Garcia is set in Marion County District Court for 9:30 on Friday morning. Garcia faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in November for Failure to have a Drug Tax Stamp. In August of last year, Garcia was a passenger in a high-speed chase that involved authorities in Marion, Monroe, and Mahaska counties. The driver in that chase, 34-year-old Joshua West of Ottumwa, was sentenced last month to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and Felony Eluding a Police Officer.