A Colorado Springs woman who pleaded guilty to dealing Xanax to her teenage son and his friends has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

According to a plea agreement, Maria Davis-Conchie, 49, gave her son and his friends drugs repeatedly, over the course of at least a year, leading up to Jan. 30, 2022.

Davis-Conchie’s 16-year-old son was found dead on Jan. 31, 2022, at a home on the 3600 block of Templeton Gap Road near Palmer Park, an affidavit states. His body was found appearing blue with drug paraphernalia on his bed, including a piece of cut straw believed to be used for smoking drugs.

According to her plea agreement, Davis-Conchie repeatedly sold the kids alprazolam (Xanax), a Schedule IV controlled substance. Davis-Conchie provided her son and his friends with Xanax for $5 to $10 per pill and gave them cautionary instructions to not use too many of the pills at one time. For a period of time, Davis-Conchie’s son and one of his friends used Xanax every weekend, although some of the Xanax was from people other than Davis-Conchie.

The plea agreement explains Davis-Conchie assumed her son would do drugs no matter what, so she decided to sell him and his friends drugs she felt were “safe.” In addition to Xanax, Davis-Conchie also provided the boys with marijuana, marijuana concentrate and acid (LSD). Around December 31, 2021, Davis-Conchie purchased Xanax bars and LSD for her son and his friends. Davis-Conchie acquired these drugs and gave them to the boys because her son and his friends wanted to try something different on New Years Eve, she said, and Davis-Conchie believed psychedelic drugs like LSD were “safe.” Davis-Conchie claims she bought those drugs from co-defendant Marlene McGuire at a fire station near McGuire’s residence and she brought her son and two of his friends with her.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office states that evidence provided during the sentencing hearing established that Davis-Conchie was the one who introduced her son to Douglas Floyd and McGuire with the goal of helping the son purchase fentanyl pills from them.

Floyd pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl resulting in the death of Davis-Conchie’s son, and was sentenced to 157 months in federal prison last month.

A federal jury convicted McGuire of distributing fentanyl resulting in the death of Davis-Conchie’s son, along with other charges in September of this year. She is scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 19.

“This case brings into stark relief the nightmare that is occurring daily in America,” said U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan. “Catastrophic decision-making paired with a deadly poisonous drug killed a child and destroyed a family.”

United States District Court Judge Regina M. Rodriguez sentenced Davis-Conchie on Nov. 29.