About 54% of the fentanyl seized throughout the country comes from Arizona, with drug overdoses increased in Pima County by 90% recently.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Standing by a picture of her son at Pantano Christian Church on Tuesday, Theresa Guerrero spoke with people stopping by her table, which had pictures of people who died because of fentanyl.
“He really enjoyed being around people and he would just help anybody out at anytime,” Guerrero said. Guerrero calls his death a drug-induced homicide because someone intentionally put the fentanyl in the cocaine.“To see his lifeless body there was just... it was the worst sight that a parent or anybody could ever see,” she said.
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