Logansport woman sentenced to 38 years for dealing controlled substances resulting in death
Last Updated on August 18, 2025 by Cass County Communication Network
LOGANSPORT – Prosecutor Noah Schafer announced that Kayla M. Lincoln, 30, of Logansport was sentenced on Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Cass Superior Court Two to 38 years in the Indiana Department of Correction for Dealing in a Controlled Substance Resulting in Death, a Level 1 Felony. The sentence followed Lincoln’s entry of an open plea to the court on May 22, 2025.
Probable cause affidavits filed in the case reveal that on September 2, 2023 at approximately 12:00 p.m. the victim died of an overdose from drugs dealt by Lincoln. First Responders Joshua Bennett and Joseph Schlosser of Logansport Police Department performed life-saving measures until Cass County EMS arrived. An autopsy confirmed that the cause of death was combined intoxication of Fentanyl, Acetyl Fentanyl and Methamphetamine. The Indiana State Police Laboratory identified the same substances in the drugs dealt to the victim by Lincoln.
The investigation was led by Logansport Police Detective Detective Clayton Frye. During the investigation, Frye discovered that Lincoln had knowledge that the victim had been clean for a while and facilitated the delivery of the fatal controlled substances. Investigation revealed the involvement of codefendants Amber Bradley and Anton Matthews, and that Lincoln obtained the drugs from Matthews with Bradley as an intermediary. Bradley drove Lincoln to the victim’s house to deliver the drugs in exchange for money. Just hours later the victim succumbed to an overdose from the substances delivered.
Honorable Judge Lisa Swaim sentenced Lincoln to 38-years to the Indiana Department of Correction with the last three years to be suspended to probation.
Co-Defendant Amber Bradley plead guilty previously and received a twenty-year sentence to the Indiana Department of Correction for her role in the death. Co-Defendant, Anton Matthews plead guilty previously and received a forty-year sentence to the Indiana Department of Correction for his role in the death.
Prosecutor Schafer thanked Deputy Prosecutor Lisa Kempf for her prosecution of all three dealers involved and said of the case, “Our hearts go out to the family of the victim of this crime. With them, we express our gratitude for the work of the officers of LPD in this case, and particularly Detective Frye. Dealers of fentanyl and other dangerous street drugs are literal merchants of death, and we are resolved to bring serious consequences to those who would so poison our community.”
SOURCE: News release from Cass County Prosecutors Office