WILKES-BARRE — A Hazleton woman whose 7-month-old son died after ingesting the deadly opioid fentanyl was sentenced Tuesday to serve up to five years in state prison.
Anyi Paola Medina Arias, 21, of 111 N. Laurel St., pleaded guilty in August to a felony count of involuntary manslaughter for causing her son to ingest fentanyl last November.
Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas imposed the sentence Tuesday, ordering Medina Arias to serve 1¼ to five years in prison.
Medina Arias has been jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility since her arrest the day after the baby died.
— JAMES HALPIN