Woman Receives Suspended Sentence For Driving Man To 857 Grams Of Fentanyl Buy In Salem

CONCORD, NH — A New Hampshire woman who was the driver involved in a drug buy in 2021 pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge on Thursday and received a suspended sentence.

Khloe Sioux Lamontagne, 34, of Berlin pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to sell a controlled drug in Merrimack County Superior Court. She was one of more than 10 other people arrested during a multi-month drug trafficking investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and its Drug Task Force.

Investigators said Lamontagne drove Travis Hood, 30, also of Berlin, to Salem so he could purchase 857 grams of fentanyl in March 2021. Hood, Michael Garrity, the NH AG’s Office director of communications, said, was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in state prison with six years of the minimum sentence suspended for 10 years for his role selling 5 grams or more of fentanyl to a confidential informant three times the month before the drive to Salem.

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Lamontagne received a two to four-year sentence, was suspended for three years, and was on two years probation.

According to superior court records, Lamontagne was arrested on drug possession, controlled premises, and driving under the influence charges in Salem in June 2022. She pleaded guilty to the drug and DUI charges in December 2022 and received a 12-month sentence and $434 fine, suspended for two years, along with license revocation and a $620 fine, which was due in May 2023.

In September 2023, a show cause hearing was held, and she failed to appear, so a warrant was issued for her arrest. According to court information, Lamontagne failed to pay the DUI fine.

In late December 2023, Lamontagne was in custody, held at the Grafton County Jail. After a bail hearing, she was released and given fine credit for being in jail, which reduced the total amount due to $375. The fine was due March 1.

Lamontagne failed to pay the fine, and the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for her arrest. The warrant appeared active as of March 11.

Garrity said the DEA also assisted the task force with the case.

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