A pair are accused of selling pills that made their way to the hands of students aged 13 to 17 from three suburban schools and led to three deaths and six other overdoses, according to a newly unsealed court document.
Three students are dead and six were hospitalized after they overdosed on fentanyl that may have come from one Dallas-area home, according to a newly unsealed court document.
Investigators found that there have been 10 instances of students ages 13 to 17 overdosing on fentanyl in the Carrollton area since September. All attend R.L. Turner High School, Dewitt Perry Middle School and Dan F. Long Middle School, in the same district.Three have died; one overdosed twice but survived.
"On multiple occasions, law enforcement members have observed Navarrete and Mejia Cano conduct hand-to-hand transactions with multiple individuals who sometimes arrive on foot and in vehicles," the document states."Many of the hand-to-hand transactions were with juvenile students of R.L. Turner High School."
The Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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