Logan Whiteaker called Jessica Rachels hours after his Drug Court graduation, asking where he could find some heroin, records say.
She said she had a guy – sold for $200 a gram. But she needed Whiteaker to drive her to the McDonald’s parking lot on Rossville Boulevard.
There, federal prosecutors say, Rachels used his phone to broker the deal and purchased two grams of a heroin mixture. Before leaving, she warned Whiteaker: This batch was “stronger” than usual.
Whiteaker was found dead the next morning of a suspected overdose, and prosecutors quietly built a case against three people involved in the deal.
On Monday in Chattanooga’s federal district court, Rachels pleaded guilty to her part in Whiteaker’s death. She will be sentenced Dec. 2 for conspiracy to distribute a mixture containing a detectable amount of heroin, and distribution of a mixture and substance containing heroin that resulted in another person’s death.