Homicide charges dropped in 2 Godfrey heroin deaths

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Kristen Gosling

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Prosecutors have dropped homicide charges against a southwestern Illinois woman in two heroin-related deaths after she pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Angela Halliday of Moro had faced charges of drug-induced homicide for allegedly providing the heroin that killed Benjamin Berkenbile of Worden in April 2011 and Joshua Rogers in a Godfrey hotel room the next month.

But Halliday pleaded guilty Wednesday in Madison County to delivery of a prescription drug within 1,000 feet of a church.

The county's prosecutors have been reviewing pending drug-induced homicide cases since a judge last month acquitted a man in the heroin death of a 17-year-old girl. The judge said the evidence showed the drug delivery may have taken place in Missouri, not Illinois.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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