UPDATED Wednesday, November 18, 2009 --- 4:11 p.m.

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) -- The last defendant has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in the heroin overdose death of a Wisconsin teenager last year.

Nineteen-year-old Christopher Dorris of Roscoe, Ill., also was sentenced to 3 1/2 years extended supervision for delivering or manufacturing heroin.

Dorris pleaded guilty in Rock County Circuit Court on Sept. 3 to the felony charge stemming from the death of 18-year-old Ryan Kennington of Beloit. Kennington died of a heroin overdose at his home on Nov. 27, 2008.

Court records say Dorris and three other teens supplied Kennington with the drug. Dorris told police he traded a bag of heroin to Kennington in exchange for a Starbucks gift card.

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UPDATED Friday, May 8, 2009 --- 10:10 a.m.

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) -- An Illinois teen has pleaded guilty to manufacturing and delivering heroin to a Beloit teen who overdosed.

Nineteen-year-old Johnathon M. Handy of Rockton, Ill., is scheduled for sentencing on July 10.

He is one of four teens charged in the Nov. 27 death of 18-year-old Ryan Kennington.

A criminal complaint says Handy helped 19-year-old Christopher Dorris of Roscoe, Ill., buy $90 worth of heroin. Dorris traded some of the drug to Kennington in exchange for a Starbucks gift card.

Eighteen-year-old Michael Maginnis of Beloit and 19-year-old Emily Hill of Winnebago, Ill., also have been charged in Kennington's death. A criminal complaint says Maginnis bought the heroin with Handy and Dorris. It says Hill used the drug with Kennington.

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Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 --- 10:15 a.m.

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) -- An Illinois teen has told investigators he traded a fatal dose of heroin to a Beloit teen for a Starbucks gift card.

Nineteen-year-old Christopher Dorris of Roscoe, Ill., is one of four people charged with delivering or manufacturing a controlled substance in the Nov. 27 overdose death of 18-year-old Ryan Kennington.

A criminal complaint says Dorris, 19-year-old Johnathon Handy of Rockton, Ill., and 18-year-old Michael Maginnis of Beloit bought heroin in Rockford, Ill., on Nov. 26. They returned to Maginnis' and Kennington's home, where Kennington and 19-year-old Emily Hill of Winnebago, Ill., used the drug.

The complaint says Dorris injected Kennington that night with a final dose that he supplied in exchange for the gift card. Maginnis found Kennington dead the next day.

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