A 37-year-old Washington County man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a single count of illegally supplying prescription painkillers to a Boonsboro high school student who died of an overdose. Robert Carroll Eichelberger of Hagerstown faces a minimum penalty of 20 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life behind bars. Eichelberger and his former girlfriend, Kathleen Ann Harris, were charged with distributing methadone that led to the death of Harry L. "Trey" Angle, 17, in July 2007. Harris pleaded guilty this year and agreed to assist federal prosecutors in their case against Eichelberger. According to prosecutors, Eichelberger and Harris had worked together since 2006 to sell the prescription-only medications methadone, oxycodone and hydrocodone. Over the course of six months last year, court records show, Eichelberger and Harris sold drugs to Angle, who used the drugs and sometimes re-sold them to friends and associates. Eichelberger will be sentenced Dec. 4.
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