ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KFGO/WJON) – A woman who was wanted on a murder charge for a St. Cloud woman’s fatal drug overdose more than three years ago has pleaded guilty.
Ashley Kapol, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of 3rd-degree murder.
Kapol was wanted on a number of warrants, including the 3rd-degree murder charge in the fatal overdose in June 2020. She was arrested on Dec. 28.
According to the charge, St. Cloud Police were called to investigate a death in the 3300 block of 14th Street N. just before midnight on June 20, 2020. The officer found a woman dead on the bedroom floor. The caller said he went to check on the woman after she was not responding to his calls and text messages. She was not breathing when he found her.
An autopsy determined she died of accidental fentanyl overdose.
Police found the victim’s cell phone in her car, but were unable to unlock it until February 2023 when authorities used new technology to unlock the phone and found a text thread between the victim and Kapol.
Kapol agreed to sell the woman a Perc 30 pill on the day she died. Perc 30 pills often contain fentanyl.
Kapol was interviewed last April and admitted to selling Perc 30 pills, but denied selling the victim any pills. Records show she also didn’t understand why it was her fault that the woman died because she decided to take a pill.
In a jail phone call about a week later, Kapol admitted she sold the pill and that the other person died. She’ll be sentenced on May 24
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