Collin County Sheriff's Office deputies worked with U.S. Marshals to arrest 25-year-old Gregory Noah Honesty last week in the case of a November overdose death of a 25-year-old woman in Blue Ridge.
FOX 4 is learning more about the first person in Collin County charged with murder over a fentanyl overdose. Collin County Sheriff's Office deputies worked with U.S. Marshals to arrest 25-year-old Gregory Noah Honesty last week in the case of a November overdose death of a 25-year-old woman in Blue Ridge.According to the affidavit FOX 4 News obtained, Collin County deputies were able to find the man who sold the Blue Ridge woman the fentanyl through her Instagram account.
"Investigators then used tools to identify the phone number and Instagram account as belonging to Honesty. In June, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that allows authorities to charge people who manufacture or distribute fentanyl illegally to be prosecuted for murder, if it resulted in a death.Last week, Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner thanked the Texas Legislature for helping law enforcement combat the fentanyl epidemic.
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