Community Grieves as Details Emerge About Carrollton Fentanyl Overdoses
In an eleven-page affidavit, investigators lay out in detail the case against Carrollton couple 21-year-old Luis Navarrete and 29-year-old Magaly Mejia Cano, connected to the overdose of nine teens, three of them fatal.
The document describes how detectives conducted multiple days of surveillance at a house on Highland Drive. They observed the couple conduct hand-to-hand transactions with multiple individuals who sometimes arrived on foot. As the details come to light, the word is spreading among a community of people who are all too familiar with this heartache. Ofie Moreno and Frank Moreno lost their son Sebastian to fentanyl just a year ago. They said he took half a pill given to him by someone at work for back pain and died at home.Sign up for NBC DFW newsletters“He was an amazing person; he just had a heart like no other,” said Ofie Moreno. “We weren't aware that fentanyl existed.
Today, their son's face is on a billboard in North Richland Hills - a partnership with Lamar Advertising and advocacy organization Rachel's Angels.
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