Eileen Lagala, a Staten Island resident for 55 of her 60 years, and a mother of three sons and four daughters, added two new titles in the past year — one when she became a grandmother and the other when she began serving a year’s probation following her guilty plea in criminal court last month.

“My best friend said to me, ‘It’s an honor to know the matriarch of a crime family,’ ” she said with a bitter laugh in a recent telephone interview.

Her crime, as she told it, began with two sentences she spoke to her son in phone calls that were being recorded on his end, behind bars in jail. Two sentences containing a total of nine words:

“What is your password?” and “We wiped your phone out.” She says those last five words were later misunderstood.

Her son Anthony Lagala Jr., 28, was arrested with several other people in October 2013 and charged with using a barbershop called Beyond Styles, in the Great Kills section of Staten Island, as a base of operations for selling drugs and guns. The police spent 10 months investigating the barbershop, and undercover officers bought oxycodone, cocaine and guns, including an Uzi, before arresting Mr. Lagala and others.