Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The man convicted of second-degree murder in a woman’s overdose death at a Knox County motel has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

The Knox County District Attorney’s Office sharing that
52-year-old Wesley Allen Lacey was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison in the overdose death of a woman at a motel in Carter on April 2, 2022.

The DA’s office says the two-day trial included evidence of Lacey admitting to giving the woman the drugs, namely fentanyl, that killed her during an interview with a Knox County Sheriff’s Office detective.

“Fentanyl and it’s analogues have been the number one drug found in overdose deaths in our community since 2016,” said DA Charme Allen in the release Thursday. “Our work with the Drug Related Death Task Force aims to reduce the amount of fentanyl coming into Knox County in order to save lives.”