(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Yuba County Court, Aaron Henning has been sentenced to 12 years, 4 months in state prison for the fentanyl-related murder of a fellow inmate at the Yuba County Jail.

Henning was arrested late last October by NET-5 agents for fentanyl sales. According to a media release from the D.A., he “managed to smuggle fentanyl into the Yuba County jail” during his booking process and distributed it to other inmates. One of them, Matthew Perez, overdosed and died.