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PRICE — A Carbon County woman has been sentenced to prison for illegally providing prescription drugs to a South Jordan man and then failing to seek help for him when he overdosed and died.
Alejandra "Ally" Dunn was sentenced Monday to serve up to 15 years in prison for distribution of a controlled substance, a second-degree felony, and up to five years in prison for manslaughter, a third-degree felony. The sentences will run concurrently to one another, court records show.
The charges against Dunn stem from the Aug. 3, 2013, overdose death of Anthony Joseph Compton. The 38-year-old South Jordan man had been living in Price at the time of his death.
Detectives said they found forensic evidence in Compton's home that implicated Dunn in the man's death. They also recovered a number of text messages between Dunn and several other people, including Compton, as part of their investigation.
The text messages provided a timeline of Dunn's actions before, during and after Compton's overdose and subsequent death, according to Carbon County prosecutors. Dunn was interviewed by police and admitted that she provided Compton with oxymorphone, a semi-synthetic prescription painkiller, prosecutors said.