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A Carbon County woman who pleaded guilty to a reduced homicide charge for providing drugs that resulted in a 2013 overdose death has been sentenced to additional jail time.

Amee Lavon Averett, 24 — who has been jailed since last October — was sentenced Monday in 7th District Court to 150 more days in jail as part of a 36-month probation.

Averett pleaded guilty in March to one count each of class A misdemeanor negligent homicide and third-degree felony distribution of a controlled substance.

She was one of three people who were originally charged with second-degree felony manslaughter in connection with 47-year-old Trevor Jay "T.J." Whiteside's heroin overdose death on Dec. 23, 2013.

Averett also was ordered by Judge George Harmond to pay restitution in the amount of $8,113.51, along with the two co-defendants, Jason Jared Jaimez, 38, and Shelbi Elizabeth Mower, 38.

Jaimez pleaded guilty in January to reduced charges of third-degree felony manslaughter and second-degree felony distribution of a controlled substance.

Jaimez admitted in court documents that he "gave heroin to a person who then gave the heroin to [Whiteside], who used the drug and overdosed causing his death."

He was given a suspended prison sentence, put on "zero tolerance" probation and was ordered to spend 300 days in jail.

Mower has a trial set to begin July 15.

Carbon County prosecutors have acknowledged that is it unusual to file manslaughter charges in connection with a drug overdose death.

"It's pretty simple," Deputy Carbon County Attorney Jeremy Humes told The Tribune last year. "If you are not a pharmacist or a doctor [distributing drugs], that's reckless behavior. We're alleging that that reckless conduct resulted in a person's death."

Utah State Code allows for a manslaughter charge when someone "recklessly causes the death of another." A person is reckless, the statute says, if he or she is aware of, but consciously disregards, the substantial risk that their actions cause.

"The reason we did [file charges] on these is because we were able to directly link how the drugs were provided to the person," Humes said.