On Instagram, the kids
made their deals.
116 year old asking of his connection,
trying to see if you can
do 130 for forty 30s.
That's slang for buying 40
M 30 pills for $130.
But these are not prescription
oxycodone M 30s.
Instead, these are counterfeit
pills made to look like
the real thing laced with
the deadly drug fentanyl.
The addiction is what drives these kids.
This is the Carrollton police St.
crime Sergeant. He's talking in
an exclusive interview with WFA.
He works undercover,
so we're concealing his identity.
They make money off of selling pills.
And they use that money to buy more
pills for their own personal consumption.
Is unit investigated at least a
dozen teenage overdoses that began
last September in Carrollton.
Three kids died. His units work
led to the arrests of two men,
a woman and eight teenage fentanyl dealers.
This substance is so dangerous and it's
deadly that we didn't have time to waste.
This work started outside of the spotlight,
like much police work does.
Robert Arredondo is Carrollton's
police chief, a former Dallas.
Peace Commander Arredondo started
January 3rd and he's found himself
at the center of the North
Texas fight against fentanyl.
When they say one pill can kill,
it is absolutely 100% true.
The bodies of teenagers began
showing up at the Dallas
County morgue in 2020.
There's been at least 21 deaths to date.
The youngest was eleven.
Most were found in their bedrooms by
family members having overdosed alone.
My heart goes out for the city of Carrollton,
Lance Sumpter overseas,
a federal program targeting drug trafficking.
Pick a city in this Metroplex,
in this Carrollton someday.
Hopefully it's not next week,
hopefully it's not next month.
There is nothing special about
Carrollton that drew the problem there.
As the overdoses kept
happening in Carrollton,
the Sergeant Shunet narrowed in
on this House on Highland Dr.
that's where Louise Navarette
and Magali Kano lived.
Orbaker sites watched as the
couple supplied deadly drugs to
students from nearby RL Turner High School.
Their investigation also led them
to Jason Villanueva, who court
papers say directly or indirectly
supplied the 8 underage drug dealers.
It really goes to show how easily
a juvenile can be influenced
and those adult drug dealers.
We're using their influence on young
children and and praying on them.
The Sergeant told us. The pills
typically sell on the streets
for about $10 each.
Sometimes these pills, they'll
get 4 uses out of a single pill,
so they'll break it into quarters
and get 4 uses out of 1 pill.
So it's a really cheap eye it is.
But just a little bit of this can kill you,
absolutely. There is no consistency
in the way that the pills
are made. There could be
a fatal amount of fentanyl on
one side of a single pill and the
other side have absolutely nothing.
Early on, he says, the kids may
have thought they were buying
legitimate oxycodone pills
he no longer believes.
That's the case, in my opinion,
at this point in March 2023.
These kids know it's fentanyl.
Myself and a lot of the officers
in my unit were parents.
So this is it hits home with us.
We want to work to protect these kids.
14 year old Jose Alberto
Perez died January 26.
His mother says he's one of the three
kids that died from a fentanyl overdose,
although his cause of death still hasn't
been determined by the authorities.
1000 now.
Hospital. El Paradero,
Nicolas Maduro, muerte.
What's striking to me is that
we see kids OD ING and then
doing it again and OD ING again.
What's the why? Why do they keep doing it?
Well, that speaks to the
addictive nature of the substance.
This is an opiate.
It's it's very strong.
WWF's also learned there's a 14 year
old Carrollton girl that's overdosed
as many as four times since December 24th,
in one case suffering temporary paralysis.
I can only imagine the stress that
those parents are going through the
sergeants advice to other police
departments. Get ready.
It's coming your way.
When that first overdose occurs,
investigate it fully and completely
and try to identify the responsible
party as quickly as you can.
In Carrollton, I'm Tanya eyes.
If you are dealing with the fentanyl
crisis and would like to discuss
it with our investigates team,
you can scan this QR code or e-mail us at
investigates@wfa.com.