Victoria Scripps-CarmodyBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A descendant of the founder of a newspaper company has been ordered held without bail in Vermont after she was dismissed from a drug rehabilitation program.
Victoria Scripps-Carmody, 21, pleaded innocent to heroin and cocaine distribution conspiracy charges. Prosecutors allege she allowed two co-defendants to stay at her apartment to help with drug distribution.
The Burlington Free Press reports a U.S. magistrate agreed at her September arraignment to go to a Florida treatment center for substance abuse. She recently left a halfway house there.
Scripps-Carmody is the descendant of the family that founded the E.W. Scripps Co. media company.
She was 3 when she saw her father kill her mother with a hammer in their Bronxville, N.Y., home in 1993. Her father then committed suicide.
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