A Spokane, Washington man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for his role in a tangled series of crimes involving three others that prosecutors tie to a Butte man’s fatal overdose on fentanyl.

Prosecutors say 49-year-old Christopher Garofalo was jailed on drug charges in Butte, quickly arranged to have people retrieve things from his truck, and a woman and man who did overdosed on fentanyl powder they found. The man, Matthew Robbins, died.

Three people who helped retrieve the drugs were charged separately and were previously sentenced. Two got suspended sentences and William James Jobe, an inmate who initiated outside help on Garofalo’s behalf, got three years of custody with the Montana Department of Corrections.

But prosecutors say Garafolo was bringing big amounts fentanyl,

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