MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — A man has been sentenced in what the Madera County District Attorney’s Office is calling its first-ever fentanyl-related homicide conviction.
Prosecutors say Jenisis Erik Knapp pleaded guilty in January to voluntary manslaughter and the sale of fentanyl.
In April 2021, Knapp sold heroin-laced fentanyl to Robert Fant, who later overdosed and died.
Authorities say Knapp knew Fant died from the drugs and continued to sell the fentanyl in the community.
On Friday, a judge sentenced him to 11 years in state prison.
