fentanyl poisonings

As critics decry President Donald Trump’s lethal strikes against narco-terrorist smugglers on the high seas, the silence surrounding the staggering toll of fentanyl deaths in the United States grows louder—raising the question: whose lives are worth defending?

A suspected drug dealer is facing murder charges in connection with the fentanyl deaths of two babies in May and August of 2023 in San Jose, California, Santa Clara County prosecutors said.

A jury in Tarrant County, Texas, handed down a life sentence following a jury trial under the state’s new law that charges a fentanyl dealer with murder if a customer dies from the drug. The district attorney pledges that more of these fentanyl murder cases will be tried to send a message to drug traffickers.

Trafficking fentanyl into the United States Is a billion-dollar enterprise for the Mexican drug cartels, the Treasury Department reported.

A woman from Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested on Tuesday in relation to the fentanyl poisoning death of a 1-year-old child.

A pair of fentanyl dealers were sentenced to a combined 15-year federal prison sentence after being found guilty in the death of a 15-year-old Carrollton, Texas, girl. The two supplied the girl with fake Percocet pills containing the deadly fentanyl, according to court documents.

A nine-month-old baby in New Hampshire had to be revived with Narcan after exposure to what police believe to be fentanyl.

Tawona Pickens-Johnson, 46, was arrested in a city nearly 500 miles away from where the incident occurred, after law enforcement initially struggled to locate her.

Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Douglas, Arizona, a border community, to mostly discuss the nation’s fentanyl crisis — saying she will “stop the flow of illegal fentanyl” into the United States. Meanwhile, drug-related deaths hit a record high on Harris and President Joe Biden’s watch. 

Angel Moms testified before the House Judiciary Committee and blamed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the loss of their loved ones. 

A South Carolina mother was arrested in connection with the May fentanyl death of her ten-month-old baby Aminah Gathers, Live 5 News reported on Monday.

A California mother is facing charges after her 18-month-old baby died of suspected fentanyl poisoning, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Quentin Fulks, President Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager, told a crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Wednesday that victims of illegal immigration, crime, and fentanyl poisonings are “politicizing” the losses of their loved ones at the Republican National Convention (RNC).

Anne Funder, whose 15-year-old son was poisoned by fentanyl, told the Republican National Convention (RNC) that she holds President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris responsible for her son’s death — blaming the administration’s open border policies. 

A Las Vegas mother was arrested on June 26 after her toddler son died from fentanyl poisoning, according to authorities.

A mother and father in North Carolina are facing murder charges after their 16-month-old baby died from fentanyl poisoning.

A California woman has been arrested in relation to the fentanyl death of her 1-year-old child in 2023, police said.

Parents in Minnesota are facing charges related to the fentanyl overdose death of their one-year-old baby girl in December of 2023.

Two parents are facing homicide charges after their 15-month-old baby was found dead from ingesting various drugs, according to officials.

Doctors in Oregon are reportedly seeing a rise in pregnant women using fentanyl, which is ultimately causing newborns to begin their lives struggling with withdrawal symptoms.

Two alleged drug dealers in San Jose, California have been charged with murder for their role in the fentanyl death of a toddler in 2023.

A Las Vegas father is facing a murder charge after his 3-year-old son died of apparent fentanyl exposure in a home filled with drugs.

The bill is aimed at combating fentanyl overdoses among children after the deaths of three Bay Area infants and toddlers. 

A Tennessee family is warning the public against taking drugs after losing Tracy Marlar, 35, to a fentanyl overdose after she took laced oxycodone.

A New York toddler’s mysterious fentanyl overdose has tormented her mother for almost a year. Though the pain of losing her daughter will never just go away, strangers from around the world have stepped in to help lessen the weight.

Three Florida mothers are taking a stand to inform the public about the dangers of fentanyl after losing their children to the deadly drug.

An Indiana couple is facing felony neglect charges after their six-month-old baby died from fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity.

Rebecca Kiessling, a mother of five who lost her two sons to fentanyl poisoning, went off on a Cato Institute scholar during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing after he suggested that Americans are responsible for the nation’s fentanyl crisis. 

Representative Buddy Carter introduced legislation that would classify Americans who died from fentanyl poisoning as crime victims.

Elected Democrats in California’s State Senate have once again voted down a plan that would allow local and state prosecutors to more easily charge drug dealers with manslaughter or murder when Americans die as a result of the drugs they sold to them.