Mom pleads guilty in drug overdose case that killed her daughter

Jazzmyn Rood

CONCORD, N.H. - Jazzmyn Rood, the Rochester woman charged in connection with the fentanyl overdose death of her daughter last October, has agreed to a plea deal that will put her in federal prison up to 32 months.

Rood had been slated for trial next month in the death of her daughter, 17-year-old Eve Tarmey, a Spaulding High senior who died inside a Rochester motel room where her mother and boyfriend were staying.

Rood pleaded guilty in federal court to misprision of a felony, which means being untruthful regarding her knowledge of details with regard to a felony that has occurred.

As a result of the deal, prosecutors will not recommend more than 32 months of what can be a 36-month maximum sentence.

Two other people arrested in the case, Rood's boyfriend Mark Ross, 41, of Rochester; and Leslie Aberle, 31, of Salisbury, Mass., who both traveled with Tarmey to Massachusetts to get the heroin-laced fentanyl that killed her, have already pleaded guilty.