LIMA, OH (WLIO) - A Lima man gets three years in prison for helping buy the drugs that led to the death of his mother.
40-year-old Joshua Hughes pleaded guilty to trafficking a fentanyl-related compound and reckless homicide, which was reduced from involuntary manslaughter. A third charge was dropped as part of the plea deal. Hughes and his brother Zachary Hughes were asked by Joshua's mother to buy fentanyl for her while she was in a program to help get her off drugs, they did so and she overdosed and died.
"I just wish people would understand, if you're going to fool around with any drugs, especially drugs that have fentanyl in them, you have to be living under a rock these days to not understand somebody can die," said Judge Jeffrey Reed, Allen County Common Pleas Court.
Zachary Hughes will be sentenced for the death of Joshua's mother for the same charges in August.
