By Jean Matheson
Correspondent
A 29-year-old Illinois woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for supplying a fatal dose of heroin to a Town of Spring Prairie man.
Lisa C. Jurgens of Crystal Lake, Ill., had pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree reckless homicide before her sentencing
Nov. 28 by Walworth County Circuit Judge John Race.
Police implicated Jurgens in the Aug. 1, 2011, death of 21-year-old Codie A. Krueger at his Spring Prairie home when they found text messages between the two.
Sheriff’s deputies and a Whitewater police detective arrested Jurgens in Crystal Lake on Aug. 2 after setting up an undercover drug buy.
After her arrest, Jurgens told officers she both uses and sells heroin.
According to a criminal complaint, Jurgens said “she picked up seven bags of heroin on Sunday, July 31, 2011, and sold two of them to Codie that Sunday.”
Dr. Mark D. Molot, a pathologist, reported to the county coroner’s office that an autopsy of Krueger on Aug. 2, 2011, found that he died from a lethal injection of heroin.
In sentencing Jurgens, Race also ordered that she serve 10 years on extended supervision when she is released from prison.
