Otter Tail County Woman Sentenced to 74 Months for 3rd-Degree Murder

Duluth man pleads guilty to murder in woman's overdose death

DULUTH — A man has accepted responsibility for selling a woman the fentanyl pills that killed her in December 2023. Jason Allen Nelson, 32, of Duluth, pleaded guilty Monday in State District Court to a third-degree murder charge in the death of Mindy Rae Solem. Nelson entered a Norgaard plea, in which the defendant asserts that he is unable to recall the circumstances of the offense but acknowledges that sufficient probable cause exists to obtai…

Local man pleads guilty to death by distribution of fentanyl

A Rutherford County, North Carolina, man is headed to prison for his involvement in an overdose death.

Minnesota woman gets prison for selling fentanyl to man who died

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — Kaitlyn Jo Carroll, 27, of Elizabeth, Minnesota, has been sentenced in Otter Tail County District Court to 74 months in prison for felony third-degree murder - sell, give or distribute a controlled substance. Carroll pleaded guilty to the third-degree murder charge on June 9, 2025, according to court documents. As part of that agreement, in a separate case, she also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree DWI. For the D…

Elizabeth, MN woman sentenced in fatal drug overdose in 2024

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A woman who was charged in the drug overdose death of a man in rural Fergus Falls last August is sentenced to just over six years in prison. 27-year-old Kaitlyn Carroll of Elizabeth, Minnesota pleaded guilty in June to 3rd degree murder. Carroll supplied a mixture of meth and fentanyl to a 28-year-old man, who was found unresponsive in a home and later died. A plastic bag containing a white powder was recovered and h…

Otter Tail County woman sentenced to 74 months for 3rd-degree murder

An Ottertail County woman is set to serve 74 months after pleading guilty to third degree murder after a man she sold fentanyl to died.

Elizabeth woman sentenced to 74 months in prison for 3rd degree murder after selling fentanyl to man who died

FERGUS FALLS — Kaitlyn Jo Carroll, 27, of Elizabeth, Minnesota, has been sentenced in Otter Tail County District Court to 74 months in prison for felony third-degree murder - sell, give or distribute a controlled substance. Carroll pleaded guilty to the third-degree murder charge on June 9, according to court documents. As part of that agreement, in a separate case, she also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree DWI. For the DWI charge, Ca…