LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office says a woman has been charged with murder in connection to a deadly drug overdose earlier this year.

Deputies arrested Courtney K. Boone, 37, of East Bernstadt, Monday evening at approximately 6:15 p.m. on KY 192 in London.

According to investigators, Boone reportedly provided a 26-year-old man with a deadly dose of fentanyl through methamphetamine in a pipe. The victim was found dead earlier this year off Douglas Lane, about seven miles north of London.

The Laurel County Coroner’s Office confirmed the cause of death as a fentanyl overdose.

Boone is charged with murder and is being held at the Laurel County Correctional Center.

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