'This is about saving other people's lives': Families pushing for enforcement of fentanyl law

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'This is about saving other people's lives': Families pushing for enforcement of fentanyl law
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Tricia Otto's photos tell part of her son's story.'This is my favorite of him with his brother,' Otto said, showing photos of Calvin Grace's life. 'He was an amazing fisherman. He's an outstanding football player. Before addiction found him, that was my son'Grace died last year at age 29 from a fentanyl overdose. Police photos tell the final chapter, showing the drug paraphernalia found in his bedroom. But the story doesn't end there.

'These cases are very difficult and very time-consuming to prosecute,' Arapahoe County Sheriff Tyler Brown said. 'You have to track down how the individual who overdosed and who unfortunately died from the consumption of those narcotics, how they got their hands on it, whether it was through a social media platform, whether it was through somebody just on the street. So there's a lot of work that goes into that.

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