Lawrence ? A 43-year-old Lawrence woman will serve more than three years in federal prison after she pleaded guilty in 2008 to participating in a credit card fraud scheme in Lawrence.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil sentenced Stacy L. Barnes-Catlett on Wednesday, but Vratil said the sentence wouldn’t begin until July 1, 2010.

In her plea, Barnes-Catlett said she participated in a scheme to use credit cards issued to other people to purchase goods in August 2005. In addition, she admitted that she used a credit card on Aug. 12, 2005, that did not belong to her to buy a clarinet from Hume Music in Lawrence. The credit card transactions were handled through an Omaha, Neb., bank.

Barnes-Catlett alleged in her plea that Carrie Neighbors participated in the scheme and directed her to pick up the merchandise.

Neighbors and her husband, Guy Neighbors, owners of the Yellow House store in Lawrence, face 19 charges in a separate wire fraud case in which prosecutors accuse them of selling stolen goods from their secondhand store.

The couple have maintained their innocence. As part of her plea agreement, Barnes-Catlett agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and will testify in related cases.

Barnes-Catlett pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. She is required to pay $1,437 in restitution to Hume Music.