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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A city man was sentenced to spend years behind bars on Monday after he pleaded guilty in January to a count of drug delivery resulting in death.</p><p>Eric Scott Malia, 34, was the first man in Luzerne County to be charged with the count after a change in state law allowed prosecutors to charge drug dealers in the overdose deaths of their alleged buyers.</p><p>Malia was charged in April 2017, along with Joan Rosengrant, after they allegedly sold fentanyl-laced heroin to Michael Gumaer, 32. Gumaer later died of an overdose.</p><p>Malia entered a guilty plea to the charge before Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. in January. He appeared once again before Sklarosky on Monday, this time to be sentenced on the charge.</p><p>Sklarosky sentenced Malia to spend between six and 16 years in state prison. He was ordered to pay $2,200 in restitution to the Forensics Association of NEPA and $476 to the county coroner.</p><p>Malia was given credit for 693 days time served.</p><p>Sklarosky also sentenced Malia to spend between 12 and 24 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to sell drugs, but Malia will serve this sentence at the same time as the longer one.</p><p>Rosengrant passed away in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in July 2017 in what was described as the combined effects of prescription drugs and an unspecified medical condition.</p><p>Malia was remanded to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility while he waits to find out which state prison he will be sent to. </p><style>
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Malia sentenced to years in prison for delivering deadly drugs