Carver admits using girlfriend's money to buy deadly heroin, but didn't care where it came from

YOUNGSTOWN

Christian Carver said Wednesday he did use his girlfriend’s money to buy the dose of heroin she overdosed on that resulted in her death.

But the 21-year-old Carver also admitted in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court he did not care where the money came from because he was going to use the drug, too.

“I wanted it as much as she did,” Carver said.

Carver, of Limaville, pleaded guilty to a charge of corrupting another with drugs and was sentenced to three years in prison by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum for supplying the heroin that led to the April 10, 2015, death of Billie Jean Lecorchick in Sebring.

Lecorchick was the mother of three of Carver’s children and had six children overall.

Assistant Prosecutor Ken Cardinal, who recommended the sentence for Carver, had a picture of all six kids in his case file.

“This is what you can leave behind when you take heroin,” Cardinal said when he looked at the picture.

Read more about the case in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.