Crime & Safety
Maple Grove Teen Gets Unusual Sentence For Role In Heroin Death
Katelyn Dreyling will spend time in jail, but she will not spend as much time there as the state would have liked.
A 19-year-old from Maple Grove will pay the price for supplying heroin to another Maple Grove teen who overdosed and died.
Katelyn Dreyling will spend the day in jail on the anniversary of Andrew Scheig's March 4, 2013, death for the next 10 years as part of her sentence announced Wednesday, according to the Star Tribune.
Prosecutors asked for a much stiffer sentence of 7 years in prison, but they were denied by the judge.
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The fate of a second defendant, Kevin Gustafson, 20, is yet to be decided by the court.
Scheig attended Weaver Lake Elementary School, Osseo Junior High and graduated from Maple Grove Senior High in May 2011.
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Family described him as smart, funny, caring and kind man, who loved his family and his friends. Scheig's mom, Becky, describes the pain of her son's heroin overdose in the attached video by Partnership For Change.
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