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PROVIDENCE -- A Pawtucket woman on probation for her role in a 2003 Pawtucket murder is scheduled to be sentenced today in Providence Superior Court for violating the terms of her probation.

Engelique Daponte pleaded no contest in December 2005 to charges she drove her then-boyfriend, Carlos Ocasio, to the apartment they shared to get a gun after Ocasio got into an altercation with Victor Oliveira, whom Ocasio shot to death.

During Daponte's Dec. 1, 2005, plea hearing, charges of first-degree murder, discharging a firearm during a violent crime and aiding and abetting a felon were dismissed. Daponte pleaded no contest to harboring a criminal. As part of her plea, she received a five-year suspended sentence and five years on probation.

She was arrested again this summer by the Pawtucket police on drug charges. She's pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and conspiracy to violate the state's Uniform Controlled Substances Act. A pre-trial conference on those charges is scheduled today.

Ocasio is serving a 45-year sentence in the Adult Correctional Institutions' maximum security unit for the murder.

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