Major supplier, 2 others sentenced in fentanyl overdose case that claimed 3 North Texas teens
A judge handed down a total of 35 years on Wednesday in the drug conspiracy case that claimed the lives of three teenage girls in North Texas.
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A judge handed down a total of 35 years on Wednesday in the drug conspiracy case that claimed the lives of three teenage girls in North Texas.
"How to fight fentanyl" was one of the topics at the first Fort Worth city council meeting of 2024.
Fentanyl in Fort Worth: In Part II, we watch as detectives set up a drug deal at a popular park in the middle of the afternoon.
More than 111,000 people in the US have died from drug overdoses in one year. The vast majority are because of fentanyl, and police departments are fighting back.
Tabitha Balent, 38, and Raymond Hernandez, 37, now face felony charges in the death of Corey Alan Culver, 29.
Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill in June allowing prosecutors to pursue murder in fentanyl deaths.
"If you deal fentanyl in Tarrant County, we are coming after you," Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells said. "Fentanyl is addictive and deadly."
Touching fentanyl or being near it won't cause a drug overdose, experts told CBS News.
Fentanyl is so pervasive and deadly—killing more than a thousand Texans a year—that it has changed how police investigate overdoses.
At varsity football games this Thursday and Friday, school districts across Texas will be passing out a prevention playbook to educate people about the dangers of misusing prescription drugs.
Julio Gonzales Jr., 18, admitted to receiving and selling about 120,000 counterfeit M30 pills containing fentanyl to multiple customers and at least one juvenile M30 dealer.
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador repeatedly denies his country is producing the synthetic opioid.
With the hope of sparing others from going through what they have, the families of 24 victims gathered in North Richland Hils next to a billboard they contributed $70 each to.
Here's what kind of life-saving information is being shared in the classroom.
There's going to be a roundtable discussion about the impact the crisis has had in Texas and DFW.
Kevin Chase McCauley, 35, was named in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Aug. 9 for federal drug trafficking violations.
Just before 5 p.m. Aug. 1, first responders were sent to three overdose calls: two at the TGI Friday's off Coneflower Drive and one at the AMC movie theater across the street.
It has been almost two years since a mother in The Colony found her 25-year-old son dead in his room from fentanyl poisoning.
Schumer says he will push to include the sanctions as an amendment in the upcoming defense policy bill.
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez died after ingesting an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, officials said.
Governor Greg Abbott has launched a fentanyl dashboard on the Department of State Health Services' website.
Lizbeth Prieto, 19, and Cristian Lopez, 24, were charged via criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances.
A 15-year-old recently died of fentanyl poisoning. Two people have been charged with selling fentanyl to her.
Eric Aden Herrera, 20, admitted that he knowingly distributed counterfeit Percocet pills laced with fentanyl to a 16-year-old, leading to his death.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that will classify fentanyl deaths as poisonings – something those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl poisonings were hoping to see.
