A 21-year-old man who gave drugs to a 15-year-old Indian girl who died of an overdose as a result was sentenced to four years in a Minnesota prison.

Heather Casey, a teen from the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation, died at the home of an alleged drug dealer. She had been given at least two prescription drugs, a painkiller and sedative by Joseph A. Potter, the grandson of the alleged drug dealer.

Potter was sentenced in state court. Minnesota is a Public Law 280 state.

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