Police have charged a Denton man with murder in a fentanyl-related drug death, the Denton Police Department announced this week. Officials say 31-year old Pedro Martinez sold cocaine laced with fentanyl to his 26-year-old coworker Dylan King, who died after taking the drugs in January. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled that King’s […]
A Raleigh man will spend 15 years in prison for selling drugs that resulted in the overdose and death of a 22-year-old woman in 2017. Treveris Montel Coward, 31, was sentenced to 180 months in prison for “aiding and abetting the distribution of fentanyl” in the Raleigh area. That includes on April 11, 2017, when […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok (KFOR) — In 2022, there were 74 homicides in Oklahoma City. That number drops to 72 for 2023. This time though, fentanyl related deaths are included in that number. “Seven of those are fentanyl-related deaths, whereas in 2022 and prior, that was never counted,” said Gary Knight, with OKC Police. Push to […]