Joann Rusby
Sentence in drug patch death
LeRoy woman given five year term
Updated: Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009, 5:37 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009, 5:37 PM EDT
A Le Roy woman was sentenced to five years in jail on Wednesday for selling a strong narcotic patch to another woman that lead to her death.
Joann M. Rusby, 51, appeared in a Genesee County Court to hear her fate.
Rusby was arrested July 1 after a Le Roy Police Department investigation into the March death of Yvonne Hart, .
Hart died as a result of placing a fentanyl patch on her skin. Fentanyl is a painkiller that can be 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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