A Bowling Green man suspected of providing fentanyl to a teenager who died after using received a 15-year prison sentence after pleading guilty Monday.

James Bentlee Good, 23, entered the guilty plea in Warren Circuit Court to charges of second-degree manslaughter and first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.

Authorities sought to hold Good responsible for the death of Vayden Forbes, 18, from suspected fentanyl poisoning on April 28.

An obituary said that Forbes was an honor roll graduate from Lighthouse Academy who had recently joined the Army National Guard.

At Good’s court appearance, Forbes’ mother, Tina Forbes and his sister, Bryonna Forbes, remembered their loved one.

Tina Forbes said that her son had recently been accepted into college and had ambitions to study chemical engineering, and that he was the family’s “protector and our joy.”

“He made sure everyone was laughing and surrounded by love,” Tina Forbes said, reading from a victim impact statement. “His kindness, humor and warmth are unforgettable.”

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office led the investigation that led to Good’s arrest, responding on April 28 to a residence on Apple Valley Road, where Forbes was found dead and a 17-year-old girl was also found suffering the effects of an apparent overdose.

The 17-year-old died May 27 in a Louisville hospital, though charges were not brought against Good in connection with that death.

During a preliminary hearing earlier this year, WCSO Detective Robert Smith testified that Forbes had ingested half of a pill containing suspected fentanyl, and that a third juvenile who had taken a fraction of a pill had been in contact with Good about the drug transaction.

Smith testified at the May hearing that the surviving juvenile told law enforcement he believed that he agreed to buy 20 pills for $240, believing he was getting “percs” from Good.

Bryonna Forbes referenced the dollar amount Monday when she read her victim impact statement.

“The defendant decided that $240 was worth more than two lives,” Forbes said.

Good was taken into custody May 8 after law enforcement found him outside The Muse apartment complex.

Good claimed to have brokered the sale of the pills between the surviving juvenile and another person who supplied the pills, Smith said at the May hearing.

At the hearing where he pleaded guilty, Good did not speak other than to answer a series of questions from Warren Circuit Judge Chris Cohron about his guilty plea.

Good’s attorney, Jill Elkind of the Department of Public Advocacy, said in court that she spoke on behalf of her client in expressing his remorse.

The terms of Good’s plea agreement prevent him from having any contact with the victim’s family.

The plea deal calls for Good to serve a 10-year sentence on the drug trafficking charge consecutively to a 5-year sentence for second-degree manslaughter.

Toward the end of the hearing, Cohron addressed Forbes’ surviving family, which sat in a row in the courtroom.

“You do have my deepest sympathies, and I do believe that this is an appropriate resolution to an unfathomable situation where all the parties are concerned,” Cohron said.