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A Hermantown woman is facing charges of third-degree murder after allegedly selling methamphetamine to a Moose Lake woman who died as a result of taking the drug earlier this year.

Dawn Marie Clemons, 39, appeared before Judge Robert Macaulay in the Sixth District Carlton County Court Monday, Dec. 10 and again on Wednesday, Dec. 12, on a single charge of felony murder in the third degree. The state alleges that Clemons caused the woman's death by selling her meth, which is a schedule 2 controlled substance.

According to the criminal complaint:

First responders found a 38-year-old Moose Lake...