WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing fentanyl, according to the Houston County District Attorney’s Office. 44-year-old Marie Lynn Vasquez of Warner Robins was sentenced February 3, 2026. According to the district attorney’s office, Vasquez’s codefendant, Clyde Richardson , previously pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl for the same transaction and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on December 12, 2025. The investigation began following an overdose death in 2023, the news release states. On June 28, 2023, a 36-year-old Houston County woman was found unresponsive in her bedroom by her mother and appeared to be suffering from a drug overdose. The Houston County Sheriff’s Office and emergency medical services responded to the home, and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the district attorney’s office, investigators secured the scene and the victim’s body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab for an autopsy, including toxicology testing. The GBI medical examiner determined the woman died from the combined effects of fentanyl, other fentanyl derivatives, h
