{"id":162754,"date":"2026-02-04T00:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:26:42","slug":"placer-county-man-convicted-of-murder-in-2023-fentanyl-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162754\/","title":{"rendered":"Placer County man convicted of murder in 2023 fentanyl overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Placer County jury has convicted a 44-year-old man of second-degree murder in connection with a fentanyl-related death that happened in July 2023, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Placer County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced on Tuesday that Brandon Garner&#8217;s conviction stemmed from the death of a local man who overdosed after allegedly receiving fentanyl from Garner. Garner is scheduled to be sentenced on March 23 at the Auburn courthouse.  <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Garner&#8217;s conviction marked the county&#8217;s fourth murder conviction tied to fentanyl distribution. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/placer-county-first-fentanyl-murder-conviction-sentencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The first such conviction in the county<\/a> occurred in December 2024 and stemmed from the overdose death of Roseville resident Kade Webb, cousin to San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Garner&#8217;s arrest followed an investigation by the Placer Special Investigations Unit, a multi-agency task force that includes officials from the county Sheriff&#8217;s Office, county Probation Department, California Department of Justice, and police departments from Roseville, Rocklin, and Auburn.  <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Placer County jury has convicted a 44-year-old man of second-degree murder in connection with a fentanyl-related death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[13260,10288,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-162754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-fentanyl","9":"tag-placer-county","10":"tag-sacramento","11":"tag-sacramento-headlines","12":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}