Two female defendants accused of providing methamphetamine to a Bartholomew County Jail inmate who overdosed and died in jail have entered guilty pleas to drug-related charges.
Bartholomew Superior Court 1 judge accepted a guilty plea from Mary L. Snyder, 19, Columbus. In a Monday morning court hearing, she admitted to Level 6 felony, possession of methamphetamine.
After Snyder left the courtroom, Debin Paige Gabbard, 27, Columbus, entered into a plea bargain agreement in two cases against her, pleading guilty to two reduced felony counts of dealing in methamphetamine.
Gabbard is scheduled to be sentenced at 11 a.m. June 12, and Snyder will be sentenced the same day at 1:30 p.m.
The two were charged early this year after an Indiana State Police investigation into the death of Angela Blair, 42, Elizabethtown, who overdosed on methamphetamine in the Bartholomew County Jail on Oct. 7, court records state.
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