MANHATTAN — Jennifer Tzar, a well-known fashion photographer who was allegedly caught with a 10-pound pot stash after a fire broke out in her Thompson Street apartment building this summer, is a free woman despite admitting possession of the drug, prosecutors said Friday morning.
After a three-alarm fire broke out Aug. 5, 2011 at 68 Thompson St., fire investigators discovered Tzar's stash in her apartment, a source told DNAinfo in August.
Tzar, 44, — whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Billboard and Interview magazines, among others — pleaded guilty to criminal possession of marijuana in the first degree and was sentenced to a conditional discharge, a spokeswoman for the city's Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor said.
The spokeswoman corrected an earlier report that Tzar had been cleared of all charges.
The felony drug possession charge is now on Tzar's record, but she will serve no jail time as long as she is not arrested within the next three years, the spokeswoman said.
Tzar, who did not respond to a request for comment, told the New York Post she was relieved to be free.
“I’m moving more into film now, and I’m recording a record of my music now — just moving on to things that are more legal,” she said.
