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Thorsen Sentenced in Overdose Death
Megan Kelly Thorsen, 32, was sentenced Thursday in Polk County, Minnesota, to 15 years in prison after a guilty plea to third-degree murder. She sold fentanyl to a 20-year-old woman who died in East Grand Forks.
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The guilty plea is a conviction, and 15 years is the judgment imposed Thursday. She must serve 10 of those years before she can ask for parole. A woman is dead, and the two Grand Forks drug cases are still waiting on their own sentences.
Polk County District Court on Thursday sentenced Megan Kelly Thorsen, 32, of Grand Forks, to 15 years in prison for third-degree murder. She received credit for 180 days already served. The court refused another 266 days of credit for time in North Dakota. She must serve 10 years before she is eligible for parole.
She pleaded guilty on July 30. East Grand Forks police were called on the morning of Aug. 19, 2025, after a 20-year-old woman died of a fentanyl overdose. Court records say the woman sent Thorsen $80 for the drugs, and that Rachel Keturah Boswell contacted Thorsen for her. The three met in Grand Forks. Thorsen warned Boswell that the fentanyl was strong and that nobody should use it alone. Boswell was sentenced in December to seven years and two months in the same death.
The 15 years will run at the same time as whatever sentence she receives in two Grand Forks cases that are still open. Those cases charge her with delivering a controlled substance inside the Grand Forks County jail and with possessing fentanyl with intent to deliver. They were not part of Thursday's sentence.
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