A man will begin his prison sentence after he was convicted of causing a woman to die from a drug overdose.

On Wednesday, Dennis Fugett, 73, of Gardner was taken to the Will County jail after he pleaded guilty June 7 to the 2014 drug-induced homicide of Lori Peck, 47.

Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak sentenced Fugett to six years in prison, but Fugett was allowed to delay serving the sentence until Wednesday, court records show.

On Sept. 9, 2014, Fugett “drove to the east side of Joliet and purchased heroin for Lori Peck,” Will County Assistant State’s Attorney Dan Egan said in the statement of facts in the case.

Egan’s statement further described Fugett giving two bags of heroin to Peck. She passed out after she snorted one of those bags and never awoke. Fugett subsequently called the police.

Peck’s cause of death was ruled to be heroin ingestion along with cocaine and Xanax, an antidepressant medication.

Fugett was given credit for serving 79 days in jail and he must serve at least 75% of his 6-year sentence, making his actual time in prison closer to four years and three months.

The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office still is prosecuting the drug-induced homicide cases against Saul Nunez, 43, Kiley Murphy, 32, and Steven Talbot, 34.

Nunez is charged with providing Christopher Shanine, 25, with a lethal overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid.

Murphy and Talbot were charged with giving heroin mixed with fentanyl to Celeste Roppo, 24.

State’s Attorney James Glasgow has vowed to deter heroin sales in Will County by charging those who distribute heroin that leads to overdose deaths with drug-induced homicide, an offense that carries a prison sentence of six to 30 years in prison.

“What we’re really trying to do is nail the dealers on this chain,” Glasgow said in 2015.