TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — A Tarrant County guy has been indicated for federal drug trafficking violations in reference to an overdose death, U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs introduced.
According to courtroom paperwork, 35-year-old Kevin Chase McCauley, of Saginaw, used to be named in a two-count indictment returned by way of a federal grand jury on Aug. 9, charging him with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and ownership with intent to distribute fentanyl ensuing in death.
On Thursday, Aug. 17, McCauley made his first courtroom look prior to U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly C. Priest Johnson.
According to the indictment and the information offered in courtroom, on March 8, officials with the Denton County Sheriff’s Office answered to a reported overdose in Argyle, Texas. When they arrived, they discovered one sufferer useless of an obvious overdose.
An post-mortem printed the sufferer died from the “toxic effects of fentanyl,” the indictment stated. Investigators concluded that McCauley allegedly used to be the one who each provided and bought the fentanyl ensuing in the sufferer’s death.
If convicted, McCauley faces two decades to existence in federal jail, officers stated.
The case is being investigated by way of the Denton County Sheriff’s Office CID, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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