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La Crosse woman pleads not guilty in overdose death
A La Crosse woman pleads “not guilty” to supplying pills to a friend who died of a drug overdose last February.
Branda Guillory of La Crosse was charged this month with reckless homicide in the death of 26-year-old Colton Thorpe.
La Crosse Police investigator James Mancuso testified in court Monday that an autopsy showed that Thorpe had taken fentanyl. Thorpe had recovered from another overdose just days earlier.
Guillory claims she found the pills at the motel where she works, and gave them to Thorpe, thinking they were oxycodone.
Her attorney says there’s no evidence connecting Guillory to the drugs that killed Thorpe.
Joshua Thomas
August 30, 2021 at 2:08 pm
The dates won’t match up I Joshua Thomas And Branda Guillory saved his life at our house days earlier on Monday we called the ambulance I maintained compressions and we chose to text his mother from his phone about his overdose he passed days later at his own apartment and we were blocked because we chose to text his mother. My Condolences to Colton’s Family #freemywife