Fentanyl-related deaths have risen in North Texas, prompting action from law enforcement and lawmakers.
Last week, a man arrested for dealing hundreds of pills laced with fentanyl was federally charged with possession and intent to distribute the lethal synthetic opioid, according to Leigha Simonton, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas.on Jan. 26 when he allegedly acted as a courier for a $15,000 cash transaction consisting of 6,000 “blues” believed to be illicitly manufactured drugs, possibly oxycodone, laced with fentanyl, a Justice Department news release stated.
. Leeroy Marquee Jones, aka Aladdin, 32, and Christopher Antwuan George, 21, allegedly ran a drug-trafficking operation that “dealt fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana in Fort Worth’s ‘Stop 6’ neighborhood” on the southeast side of the city, a press release noted at the time. that detailed a “an increase in identifications of fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and heroin, among other opioids, in the toxicology and seized drug analysis fields over the past several years.”that Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia claimed “his officers seized enough fentanyl to potentially kill thousands of people” last year. The report also stated that “DPD has linked dozens of overdose deaths to the illicit substance that they're finding laced in other pills.
One of the bills that state Sen. Nathan Johnson hopes to push through this year is directly tied to the rise in fentanyl-related deaths in Texas. As detailed in the filing, Senate Bill 86 aims to legalize “the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of testing equipment that identifies the presence of fentanyl, alpha-methylfentanyl, or any other derivative or controlled substance analogue of fentanyl.
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