Pennsylvania

Woman Gets 9 to 20 Years in Montgomery County Killing Over Drug-Deal Money

A southeastern Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to nine to 20 years in state prison in the murder of a man during what authorities called a dispute about money related to drug deals.

The (Pottstown) Mercury reports that 23-year-old Mariah Walton was sentenced Thursday in Montgomery County on earlier guilty pleas to third-degree murder and conspiracy.

Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy said Walton chose "to enter the world of drug dealing and violence" but also noted her eventual cooperation with prosecutors and testimony against her former boyfriend, Richard Collins. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the March 2015 shooting death of 38-year-old Artie Bradley in Pottstown.

Walton tearfully apologized to Bradley's family, saying she wished she had cooperated sooner while adding "But I did tell the truth."

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