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4 Arrested In San Francisco's First Confirmed Cychlorphine Overdose Death — A 16-Year-Old
Police say four suspects were charged after investigators linked the teen’s fatal overdose to a counterfeit pill network and seized more than 20,000 pills.
- On Monday, San Francisco police charged four suspects—Nicholas Wallace, Sharonee Hyson, Leander Pitts, and Starr Lamare—in a drug investigation stemming from 16-year-old Dante Lacourte's April death from cychlorphine.
- Cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid estimated to be 10 times more potent than fentanyl, killed Lacourte after he consumed multiple drugs; the substance is invisible to standard test strips and requires multiple Narcan doses to potentially reverse.
- Police arrested Wallace in the Tenderloin neighborhood and recovered 34 oxycodone pills and cocaine; officers later arrested Pitts and Lamare in Bayview-Hunters Point, seizing more than 20,000 counterfeit pills including Xanax and oxycodone, plus firearms and $2,267.
- Mayor Daniel Lurie vowed to "find it, track it, warn people about it" regarding new drugs; investigators confirmed pills recovered in earlier, unrelated arrests also tested positive for cychlorphine, indicating broader circulation.
- San Francisco plans to resume public reporting of wastewater testing results this fall, a strategy Stanford University psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys says could identify emerging substances before they cause fatalities.
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Four suspected dealers arrested over death of tragic 16-year-old who took new super drug ‘100 times stronger than fentanyl’
Infamous for its extreme potency and unpredictable presence in the illicit drug market, cychlorphine just recently surfaced in the city and was present in a counterfeit pill taken by a teen who died.
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San Francisco Police Arrest Four in Overdose Death of 16-Year-Old Tied to New Synthetic Opioid
San Francisco police arrested four suspected drug dealers connected to the April overdose death of 16-year-old Dante Lacourte, who took a counterfeit pill containing the powerful synthetic opioid cychlorphine.
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