Drug-dealing woman gets 15 years in prison

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Brandi Watson, 27, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for her role in a drug-dealing enterprise that led police to find $120,000 worth of discarded heroin after a high-speed chase.

Watson made no statement before Judge Peter Kontos sentenced her in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on cocaine-possession, heroin-possession, tampering with evidence and a specification that she possessed a quantity of heroin sufficient to label her a “major drug offender.” She was also convicted of committing the crimes while possessing a gun.

Her accomplice in the enterprise, Fred D. Johnson, 40, will be sentenced June 1.

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