Woman previously jailed for drug-related death of her child sentenced for selling methamphetamine pills, feds say

A 49-year-old Ocean County woman who was previously jailed for causing the heroin-related death of her child will spend more than 12 years in federal prison for distributing over 1,500 pills containing methamphetamine that she falsely presented as ecstasy, United States Attorney Robert Frazer announced this week.

Denise Manco of Little Egg Harbor Township received a 151-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi on June 8, 2026, in Trenton federal court. She had pleaded guilty on May 27, 2025, to one count of distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.