Fentanyl

Drug overdose and alcohol poisoning deaths that involved fentanyl have fallen by about 100 so far since last year.

A law passed in 2023 allows prosecutors to seek murder charges against someone who gives another person a fatal dose of fentanyl.

Nearly two dozen members of the Chuco Tango gang were arrested on Thursday in connection with the smuggling and distribution of methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl across West Texas and New Mexico.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office found Roderick Johnson died of fentanyl and trazodone toxicity. He was one of two people to die in the county jail in April.

Stephanie Hellstern fondly remembers her son, Kyle Shane Sexton, as a great 16-year-old kid. But he’d begun getting into trouble at school and trying drugs.

Over 20 musical acts and DJs will perform within a two-mile radius in the West End.

Richard Leal, 33, was convicted last week of delivering between four and 200 grams of fentanyl and other drugs, which now carries a harsher criminal penalty under a Texas law passed last year.

Waybourn has made border issues and immigration one of his main issues as sheriff.

Wylie police allege Kennedy Kirby provided fentanyl to a man whose Jan. 11 overdose death police are investigating.

Zakkary McReynolds, 18, was arrested on murder charges Tuesday in connection with the death of a 17-year-old after McReynolds sold him fentanyl, according to a Denton Police Department news release.

A new state law allows Texas prosecutors to charge people with murder if they give someone else a deadly dose of fentanyl.