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Drug dealer sentenced to 8 years for fentanyl overdose of ex-Marine

Burrell is now serving 14 years in prison on separate opioid-related cases in Hennepin County. Two more cases involving deaths are pending.

June 16, 2018 at 10:04PM
Beverly Burrell
Beverly Burrell (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A Maplewood woman was sentenced Thursday in Sherburne County District Court to an additional eight years in prison for supplying a fatal dose of fentanyl to a Marine veteran, one of several cases she's been charged in.

Beverly Burrell, 22, was convicted in April of third-degree murder and third-degree sale of a controlled substance in connection with the April 2016 death of Dustin Peltier, 31, a veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

When Burrell was charged, Peltier's mother said that her son had planned to go back into treatment for the addiction that overtook him after he began self-medicating to escape the nightmares he suffered after two tours in Iraq.

"He would go to treatment, do well, and then he would fall back again," Carla Peltier said at the time. "He would come home for the holidays, and he would seclude himself. Slowly we would lose him again."

Burrell is serving 14 years in prison on separate opioid​-related cases in Hennepin County. Two more cases against her involving drug fatalities are pending. Both trials are set for August.

Beverly N. Burrell, 32, of Maplewood, was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for supplying a fatal dose of fentanyl to a Marine veteran. ORG XMIT: MIN1607201114360395
Burrell (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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