Two people are accused of providing drugs that lead to deadly ODs
A man and a woman face charges related to the fentanyl overdose deaths of two Cleveland County men in June. Cleveland County Sheriff's Office investigators say Amanda Pruitt of Blacksburg, South Carolina, and Quintel Malik Houser, of Shelby, sold the synthetic opioid fentanyl to two men who later died of an overdose of the drug. Both face the charge of death by distribution. Under North Carolina law, the two face a range of punishment if convicted as charged from a minimum of 15 months in prison to a maximum of 231 months in prison, based on prior criminal histories and other mitigating or ag...