CASPER, Wyo. — A Glenrock woman was sentenced to three to six years in prison on Thursday for her role in helping her friend Kristen McCord bring hundreds of fentanyl pills into the community from Colorado.
Heather Elaine Evans, 39, was sentenced by Judge Catherine Wilking on Thursday, May 22. Evans is awaiting sentencing on a second fentanyl conspiracy case in Natrona County.
Public Defender Dylan Rosalez said Evans had gotten full-time employment and was over five months sober while on bond, adding that she had taken the charges as a “wake-up call.”
However, Wilking said she could not overlook the fact that Evans had gotten new charges for similar conduct while on bond or the amount of fentanyl that came into the community during the case.
Evans told the court at her change-of-plea hearing that her role had primarily been to rent a car to travel with McCord to Colorado in, though she admitted she knew the purpose of the trip.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Blaine Nelson noted at sentencing that that Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigations affidavit included a string of Cash App transactions between McCord and Evans that indicated Evans was actively engaged in distribution.
McCord reportedly told agents the pair had gotten “under 2,000” fentanyl pills in one trip in summer 2023. Agents conducting a search on McCord’s Evansville residence on Aug. 1, 2023, found 989 fentanyl pills, according to the affidavit.
