A Lima man was convicted and sentenced on Tuesday for the second time in six months. Derek Kitchen pleaded guilty to a charge of theft and was sentenced to three years of community control while having to complete programming at the WORTH center. A charge of burglary was dropped from his case. Back in October, Kitchen was sentenced to probation for another crime. He pleaded to trafficking fentanyl. Lab testing could not determine the drugs that killed Shawn Hutchinson in the fall of 2018, so the involuntary manslaughter charge was dropped as part of his plea deal. Andrea Croft was sentenced to prison for her role in that crime.

A Lima man that was originally charged with providing the drugs that led to an overdose death only gets probation after that charge was dropped. 27-year-old Derek Kitchen was sentenced to 3 years probation for trafficking in a fentanyl related compound. Lab testing could not determine the drugs that killed 26-year-old Shawn Hutchinson in the fall of last year, so the involuntary manslaughter charge was dropped as part of the plea deal that kitchen made with prosecutors.

A Lima woman admits her drug addiction was the driving force behind her criminal charges, and now she will head to prison with a goal of getting clean. 26-year-old Andrea Croft was sentenced to a total of four years in prison for two separate incidents last year. In November of 2018, Croft was arrested for having meth and was caught trying to smuggle some of the drugs into jail to help feed her addiction.

A resolution has been reached in the case against a Lima man accused of providing drugs that killed a man. Monday in Allen County Common Pleas Court, 27-year-old Derek Kitchen pleaded guilty to one of his three charges, trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, a fifth-degree felony. His other charges of involuntary manslaughter and trafficking in cocaine were dismissed. The state says the deal came about because of the toxicologist's difficulty in determining a cause of death. Prison time is not mandatory for the fifth-degree felony.

A Lima woman accused of involvement in a man's overdose death has taken a plea deal. 26-year-old Andrea Croft pleaded guilty to five charges in two cases. In a case last year, Croft pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of drugs and illegal conveyance of drugs for bringing drugs into the Allen County Jail. In a case this year, she pleaded guilty to aggravated trafficking in drugs and trafficking cocaine.