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COVINGTON, LA (WGNO) — Two men have been sentenced for the 2016 death of a 17-year-old Mandeville boy.
35-year-old Jamie Cooper pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and distribution of synthetic marijuana.
Cooper provided the drugs that led to the death of a Mandeville teenager.
A friend of the victim called police on the night of he incident. He admitted to police he and the victim smoked a brand of synthetic marijuana known as Mojo. The surviving teen said he passed out, and when we awoke, he was in a ditch with the deceased teen on top of him.
The teens had bought $20 worth of Mojo from a middle man, 25-year-old Jarbari Pea, of Covington.
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