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Ill. teen sentenced in OD death

BELOIT, Wis. -- The last defendant has been sentenced to 2½ 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 3ˆ½ 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.