On the same day federal authorities announced a fourth arrest related to deadly drug sales in Carrollton last Friday, a student at RL Turner High School became unresponsive after ingesting a pill, requiring a dose of a lifesaving drug called Narcan. That student did survive.
Every campus in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD now has access to Narcan following three overdose deaths of middle and high school students.
In the past year, Chavez says authorities have seized over 11 million deadly doses of fentanyl in North Texas mostly in the form of blue pills.A Carrollton man is facing federal charges after investigators say he used the arrest of two alleged drug traffickers to promote the sale of his own drugs. "We continue to work with the Carrollton Police Department just on a lot of the tentacles," Chavez said. "You don’t know how widespread a particular organization has their grips on an area or a city for that matter."
For now, Chavez says the strategy for taking down these drug dealers is to keep whittling away one at a time. He says it’s a slow process but one that can hopefully lead to bigger results.
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