Federal authorities and Carrollton police arrested a man they accuse of being the “main source of supply” of fentanyl in connection with the deaths and...
and hospitalizations of six others in a string of overdoses. The youngest person to overdose was 13, according to court records.
In January, federal drug agents and Carrollton police began looking into medical emergencies with evidence of fentanyl overdoses. They traced each one to a Carrollton house on Highland Drive just blocks from R.L. Turner High School, court records show. There,Navarrete, 21, and Cano, 29, were arrested and are still being held in federal custody the case. The complaint against the two described the drugs they distributed as “fake Percocet and OxyContin” tablets laced with fentanyl.
The fatalities and overdoses involve teens enrolled in R.L. Turner, DeWitt Perry Middle School and Dan F. Long Middle School. The most recent death linked to the related fentanyl overdoses was Feb. 1 for print, court records show., is often mixed with acetaminophen and other substances then pressed into pills. When prescribed by doctors and taken responsibly, fentanyl can be helpful, medical professionals say. But even a small amount — the size of the tip of a sharpened pencil — can be lethal.
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