EASLEY — After an unrelated traffic charge, an Easley woman was arrested last Monday in connection with the carjacking of a pickup truck 11 years ago.

Lisa Marie Alawine Moore, 45, of 240 Powdersville Road, still faces charges of grand larceny and carjacking, according to arrest warrants issued by the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office in 1998.

According to the warrants, Moore, and a co-defendant, was accused of assaulting a motorist in Liberty and taking the woman’s 1973 Chevy pickup on July 9, 1998.

Both Moore and Samuel Olen McClain were arrested in Chicago on Aug. 6, 1998.

The case was turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s office after Moore and McClain were charged with the carjacking, and a separate carjacking on July 15, 1998.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanne Howard confirmed that Moore was sentenced for the crimes and has already served time for both carjackings.

Moore, who went by Lisa Marie Alawine at the time, was sentenced in federal court to 37 months in prison and three years supervised release after pleading guilty to the carjackings, Howard said.

“After being released from prison, she violated the supervised release and went back into custody in July 2000,” Howard said.

A revocation hearing was held in Nov. 2001, and Moore then served nine more months in prison, at a federal facility in Tallahassee, Fla., she said.

“So it appears that she has completed her sentence,” Howard said.

McClain struck a deal to avoid a life sentence and pleaded guilty in the same case. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.

Assistant Sheriff Tim Morgan said the Pickens County warrants on McClain were recalled, but those on Alawine Moore were still active at the time of her traffic stop on Halloween 2009.

Those warrants had been entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, and when Moore was charged in a traffic incident, her information was checked, and the hold against her in Pickens County was discovered, Morgan said.

He said it was possible that the state court system or magistrate’s office failed to recall the warrants on Moore when federal prosecutors took over the case, but he said he didn’t know why – if that was indeed the case.

“It’s out of our hands once the court system gets it,” he said.

But Morgan said the warrants were not recalled and were still valid, so his office had to make the arrest.

He said it would take a court order for the charges to be dropped.

Moore was released last Monday from the Pickens County Detention Center on a personal-recognizance bond of $7,500.

When her court time comes, Capt. Dewey Smith with the Sheriff’s Office said he expects Moore will have all her documentation ready to prove she has already served time in the case.