Drug charges dropped against former North Andover swim coach
The prosecution of former North Andover swim coach Elizabeth Backler, who had been accused of providing prescription pills to a high school student, ended Monday when a judge dismissed all the charges she faced.
Backler’s defense attorney, David Meier, said Lawrence District Court Judge Michael Uhlarik threw out the charges just before Backler’s trial on three counts of distributing oxycodone and Valium to the North Andover High School student in 2014.
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