Greensburg woman ordered to serve additional prison sentence for spouse’s overdose
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A Greensburg woman was ordered Tuesday to serve up to an additional three years in prison for her role in the 2020 overdose of her spouse.
Mary Crimboli-Baker, 37, has been in jail after her probation and parole were revoked in March for a series of violations that included repeated use of illegal drugs, failure to pay court fees and restitution and failure to report to probation officers. She also failed to appear for a hearing last September, according to court records.
Crimboli-Baker pleaded guilty in early 2021 to lesser drug charges after prosecutors dropped a felony count of drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the fatal overdose of her wife, 32-year-old Justine Baker, who was found unresponsive in the couple’s Greensburg apartment following the use of drugs purchased a day earlier.
According to court records, Crimboli-Baker told police she bought 12 bags of heroin from another Greensburg woman, Jamie Lynn Dickant. Investigators said Crimboli-Baker exchanged pills and paid $60 for the drugs that was left by Dickant’s mother in a mailbox.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani originally sentenced Crimboli-Baker to serve just less than one to two years in jail and two additional years on probation. She served about seven months in jail and was released early to a drug treatment program.
Crimboli-Baker had been on the run since last summer and was taken into custody in March, according to court records.
Feliciani on Tuesday resentenced Crimboli-Baker to serve another 1 1/2 to three years in prison.
Two other people were prosecuted for their role in Justine Baker’s overdose.
Jamie Lynn Dickant, then 35, of Greensburg pleaded guilty to drug delivery resulting in death and was sentenced by Feliciani to serve 7 to 14 years in prison.
Dickant’s mother, Rita Dickant, 63, of Greensburg pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and was sentenced by Feliciani to serve up to six months in jail and three years on probation.