BANGOR (AP) – A drug trafficking charge against a 64-year-old Corinna woman whose grandson buried 8 pounds of cocaine in her pool shed has been dismissed.

Jeanne Rogers was arrested last October, three days after the apprehension of her grandson, Jason Belmer, 26, who had eluded police for six weeks.

In a letter filed with the court, Assistant Attorney General William Savage recommended that the charge against Rogers be dropped.

“The defendant has demonstrated that she made poor choices under duress,” Savage wrote. “She has participated in counseling and community service at the request of the state. No further prosecution is warranted.”

Rogers had pleaded not guilty to the charge last November, and details about her alleged involvement in Belmer’s drug operation were never spelled out publicly.

Belmer was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated trafficking in cocaine, criminal restraint, burglary of a motor vehicle and refusing to submit to arrest.

The woman with whom he fled the state, Michelle Carmack, 28, of Haverhill, Mass., was sentenced in November to 45 days in jail for conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and hindering apprehension.

Carmack and Belmer were stopped on Sept. 4 for speeding on Interstate 70 in Colorado a few miles over the Kansas border. Carmack was arrested, but Belmer disappeared by running into a cornfield. Police later arrested him in Pittsfield after receiving a tip that he had returned there.