ABINGDON, Va. — A former Norton City Schools teacher living Letcher County been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for trafficking large amounts of meth and fentanyl into Southwest Virginia.

Andora Lee Smith, 62, of Whitesburg pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute over 20 kilograms of drugs, most of it from her home in Kentucky.

Investigators say she routinely sold ounce-plus quantities of meth and fentanyl from her home, and she traveled to Louisville to pick up fentanyl and xylazine.

Smith, a former teacher at Norton Elementary and John I. Burton High School, was linked to a drug network involving at least five other people.

She was sentenced to 145 months behind bars.

The case was investigated by the ATF, Kentucky State Police, and the Southwest Virginia Drug Task Force.