10-Year Sentence In Resort Drug Overdose Case

SNOW HILL -- A Westminster man, convicted in May of manslaughter for providing a female victim with a fatal dose of methadone and then slowly watching her die while on vacation in Ocean City last July, was sentenced to 10 years in jail last week.

After deliberating for over 10 hours following a two-day trial in Worcester County Circuit Court in May, a jury found Michael Thomas Dill, 30, guilty of manslaughter, distribution of methadone and reckless endangerment. Back in court last Frhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifiday, Dill was sentenced to 10 years each for the manslaughter and methadone distribution charge and the reckless endangerment charge was merged for sentencing.

Dill was found guilty of providing the victim, 31-year-old Quianna Dinkens, also of Westminster, with a lethal dose of methadone and then watching her slowly overdose in front of him and her young son while vacationing in Ocean City last July. Dill also admitted taking pictures of the victim as she slowly died because, he told police, he wanted to show her what she looked like the following day.

More