New fentanyl law leads to Tarrant County’s first murder conviction

Fort Worth Man Sentenced to Life in First Tarrant County Fentanyl Murder Trial

A Tarrant County jury has sentenced Jacob Wayne Lindsay, 48, to life in prison after convicting him of murder for distributing drugs that led to the

North Texas Jury Hands Down Life Sentence After Fentanyl Murder Trial

A jury in Tarrant County, Texas, handed down a life sentence following a jury trial under the state's new law that charges a fentanyl dealer with murder if a customer dies from the drug. The district attorney pledges that more of these fentanyl murder cases will be tried to send a message to drug traffickers. The post North Texas Jury Hands Down Life Sentence After Fentanyl Murder Trial appeared first on Breitbart.

First fentanyl murder verdict by jury in Tarrant County case

New fentanyl law leads to Tarrant County’s first murder conviction

A Texas law was passed in 2023 allowing for anyone who supplies fentanyl resulting in a death to be charged with murder.

Fentanyl murder: Tarrant County jury gives man life in prison

The case is the first instance of a person being tried and convicted for murder in Tarrant County under a new Texas law that targets deadly fentanyl distribution.

Fentanyl a growing concern in collision industry

One collision repair shop’s story about finding fentanyl in a recovered vehicle ignited conversation about the need for industry protocols during the Society of Collision Repair Specialists’ (SCRS) open board meeting in Richmond, Virginia.  Amber Alley, manager at Barsotti’s Body & Fender and SCRS’s immediate past president, said a stolen recovered vehicle was recently towed to her shop after being missing for more than 30 days.  “Immediately, t…