A Greensburg woman was ordered Tuesday to serve up to an additional three years in prison for her role in the 2020 overdose of her spouse. Mary Crimboli-Baker, 37, has been in jail after her probation and parole were revoked in March for a series of violations that included repeated
A Westmoreland County judge on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Greensburg woman who was sentenced to serve a 14-year prison term for the sale of heroin that caused the fatal overdose of a woman last year. Jamie Lynn Dickant, 35, sought to rescind her guilty plea and contended she
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Jodie Graft had a simple message to the woman she still blames for her daughter’s overdose death last year in Greensburg.
Graft, sobbing, peered over a Plexiglass shield, looked directly at Mary Crimboli-Baker as she stood next her defense lawyer in a Westmoreland County courtroom, and said she wished it was her and not her daughter who did not survive their use of fentanyl-laced heroin last February.
“Why did she wake up and not my daughter? It’s just not fair,” Graft said during a guilty plea and sentencing hearing before Judge Christopher Feliciani. “You get to go home and see your daughter. You better tell her you love her before something happens to you.”
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A Greensburg woman remains in jail as she mulls whether to accept a plea deal that would result in the dismissal of a felony charge of drug delivery resulting in death in connection the fatal overdose last February of her wife.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani on Friday rejected a defense request to reinstate bond for Mary Crimboli-Baker, 34, who is awaiting trial on six criminal counts associated with the Feb. 11, 2020, overdose death of 32-year-old Justine Baker in the couple’s Greensburg apartment.
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A Greensburg woman was sentenced to up to 14 years in prison for the sale fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a woman in her Greensburg home in February.
Jamie Lynn Dickant, 35, pleaded guilty to counts of drug delivery resulting in death and three other drug-related charges in connection with the fatal overdose of 32-year-old Justine Baker on Feb. 11.
Police said Baker’s spouse, Mary Crimboli Baker contacted Dickant by text massage and arranged to purchase 12 bags of heroin, stamped with the word “Punisher,” for which she paid $60 in cash and exchanged several pills. According to court records, Crimboli Baker retrieved the heroin from Dickant’s mailbox and was driven home, where she and Justine Baker used the drugs.