CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) – A woman will spend at least the next five years behind bars after pleading guilty to providing drugs to a man who died from them.

Carteret County District Attorney Scott Thomas says that Melissa Mastropierro, 42, of Atlantic pled guilty to death by distribution of controlled substances in the death of Pawnee Schmitz, 30, of Davis.

Mastropierro was sentenced to between 5.8 and 8 years in prison.

It was back on May 29th that deputies went to a home on Community Road in Davis after Schmitz’s father reported finding his son unconscious on the bathroom floor.

Investigators say that drug paraphernalia and two small bags, one with meth, the other with fentanyl, were found close to Schmitz’s body. His death was confirmed to be from meth and fentanyl toxicity.

A search of his phone by deputies found that he had several conversations with others related to drug purchases the night before his death.

Mastropierro was arrested alongside three others.