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

A 19-year-old drug dealer is the first defendant in Tarrant County to be sentenced to prison for murder under a new Texas state law.

A 19-year-old Azle man is now the first person in Tarrant County convicted of murder for dealing fentanyl.                Kaeden Farish will serve prison time for the death of 17-year-old Dustin Anderton in Bedford earlier this year.

Prosecutors secured the first conviction in Tarrant County under a new state law allowing defendants to be charged with murder in some fentanyl overdose deaths, the district attorney’s office announced Thursday.

This is the first conviction for the county under a new state law allowing for prosecutors to seek murder charges in some fentanyl deaths, according to the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office.

A man has been arrested and charged for allegedly supplying fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a woman in Hamilton County. According to court documents, 25-year-old Alfreddie Peterson Jr. was arrested and preliminarily charged with dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death,