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Murder charge filed in Carlton County overdose case

Miranda Ojibway faces third-degree murder charges after selling fentanyl-laced drugs that caused Lewis Barney Sr.'s fatal overdose, officials said.

CARLTON — Prosecutors have added a homicide charge against a woman who was arrested after her neighbor’s fatal overdose last month. Miranda Ojibway, 47, of Sawyer, was charged this week with third-degree murder in the Jan. 3 death of 55-year-old Lewis Edward Barney Sr. Authorities said at the time that Ojibway sold Barney and his fiancée a substance that they believed to be cocaine. However, after ingesting it, the victim was found unresponsive …

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Duluth News Tribune broke the news in Cherokee County, United States on Thursday, February 5, 2026.
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