Ed. Note: The following is a news release courtesy of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.

An Acton man pleaded not guilty to charges related to the death of a Santa Clarita man who was found dead from a drug overdose this past May, District Attorney officials said Friday.

Tommy Loaiza, 38, of Acton, was arraigned Friday morning and pleaded not guilty of the death of 42-year-old Kahlil Banks, said Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

Loaiza is expected to appear in court for his preliminary hearing setting July 21, he said. Loaiza is facing one count each of murder, involuntary manslaughter, grand theft of an automobile and sale of controlled substance, heroin.

Loaiza was allegedly convicted in 1995 of second-degree robbery and receiving stolen property in 2012, according to a news release.

Banks was found dead from an overdose inside his apartment on the 28000 block of Sarabande Lane in Canyon Country, the prosecutor said, in a news release. Loaiza has been charged with supplying heroin to the victim, leaving him for dead and then stealing Banks’ Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.

Loaiza is being held in lieu of more than $2 million and faces a possible maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison if convicted, according to the news release.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives are continuing to investigate the case.