(COLDWATER) – Sentence has been handed down to a woman for her part in the death of an inmate at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater.

Branch County Circuit Court officials say 24 year old Dezaray Brown-Bobo was sentenced to between 3 and 20 years in prison. She had plead guilty earlier to a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine. Charges of delivery of a controlled substance causing death and bringing contraband into a prison were dismissed by the Branch County Prosecutor’s Office.

In October 2023, the Michigan State Police was asked to assist the Department of Corrections in the investigation of the death of 57 year old inmate William Wilson, who was found dead in a prison bathroom after ingesting a substance that was later identified as methamphetamine.

The investigation uncovered that the drugs had been smuggled into the Coldwater facility during a visit from Brown-Bobo two days before Wilson died. She was eventually arrested in March 2024.

Two more suspects were arrested last week in connection with Wilson’s death. 30 year old Lakeland prisoner Evellis McGee and 24 year old Aaliyah Monet Lent of Saginaw, for their roles into the smuggling of contraband into the prison that attributed to Wilson’s death.

McGee was arrested July 30 and Lent was arrested August 2 near Detroit. Both are being held in the Branch County Jail.