MILLERSBURG — Outlining years of addiction that culminated in criminal charges for trafficking in drugs and an unrelated overdose, a Killbuck woman on Wednesday admitted to selling methamphetamine to an informant working with law enforcement.
Devin Jade Williams, 22, whose last known address was 3251 Township Road 1021, pleaded guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to two counts of trafficking in cocaine. In exchange for her guilty plea, the state dismissed four other drug trafficking charges. For her part, Williams agreed to repay $295 in buy money associated with all six charges.
She is set to be sentenced on April 6, at which time she faces up to three years in prison.
Williams, currently incarcerated because she violated her bond by testing positive for methamphetamine and heroin, told Judge Robert Rinfret, “I'm very scared to be honest with you.” …show more content…
1 and Aug. 6. They reflect not only the drug allegedly offered for sale, but that which was delivered.
“An offer to sell drugs in Ohio is illegal,” said Holmes County Assistant Prosecutor Steve Knowling, at the time of Williams' indictment.
By charging for both drugs, the state closes the door to a potential defense on only one. Defendants, however, can only be convicted for one of two, the offer to sell cocaine or the actual sale of meth, he said of the charging decision made in the case Williams and three others.
The discrepancy was identified when the purchased product tested negative for cocaine, according to LEAD Task Force Commander Joe Mullet. However references to “chards,” a term associated with crystal meth, prompted lab analysis, which tested positive for meth.
Based on intelligence gathered and similarities in the four cases, Mullet said, it is believed all four cases are connected, and the investigation continues and charges are pending against the man thought to be the local source of the drugs
Devin Jade Williams, 22, whose last known address was 3251 Township Road 1021, pleaded guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to two counts of trafficking in cocaine. In exchange for her guilty plea, the state dismissed four other drug trafficking charges. For her part, Williams agreed to repay $295 in buy money associated with all six charges.
She is set to be sentenced on April 6, at which time she faces up to three years in prison.
Williams, currently incarcerated because she violated her bond by testing positive for methamphetamine and heroin, told Judge Robert Rinfret, “I'm very scared to be honest with you.” …show more content…
1 and Aug. 6. They reflect not only the drug allegedly offered for sale, but that which was delivered.
“An offer to sell drugs in Ohio is illegal,” said Holmes County Assistant Prosecutor Steve Knowling, at the time of Williams' indictment.
By charging for both drugs, the state closes the door to a potential defense on only one. Defendants, however, can only be convicted for one of two, the offer to sell cocaine or the actual sale of meth, he said of the charging decision made in the case Williams and three others.
The discrepancy was identified when the purchased product tested negative for cocaine, according to LEAD Task Force Commander Joe Mullet. However references to “chards,” a term associated with crystal meth, prompted lab analysis, which tested positive for meth.
Based on intelligence gathered and similarities in the four cases, Mullet said, it is believed all four cases are connected, and the investigation continues and charges are pending against the man thought to be the local source of the drugs