{"id":318902,"date":"2026-06-25T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:15:08","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-supplying-fentanyl-that-killed-woman-in-hillsborough-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318902\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of supplying fentanyl that killed woman in Hillsborough County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERVIEW, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A Florida man was arrested after investigators linked him to a fatal fentanyl overdose that occurred in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said deputies responded Dec. 29, 2025, to a home on Balm Boyette Road in Riverview, where they discovered the body of a woman identified as 43-year-old Grace Remington. Investigators determined she died from a fentanyl overdose.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/grandson-arrested-in-palm-beach-co-shooting-first-appearance-set-after-grandfather-dies-family-members-shot-gunfire-palm-beach-county-sheriffs-office-coconut-boulevard-shot-chest-neck-head-shoulder-pellet-wound-crashed-car-gunfire-shooting-911-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man killed, grandson arrested after family dispute leads to quadruple shooting in PBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the sheriff&#8217;s office, the investigation revealed that Aaron Lee Morris had delivered the fentanyl to Remington before her death. Toxicology results showed a fatal amount of the drug in her system.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, HCSO&#8217;s Opioid Overdose Investigation Section arrested Morris, 46, and charged him with first-degree murder resulting from the unlawful distribution of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fentanyl continues to destroy lives and devastate families in our community,&#8221; Sheriff Chad Chronister said. &#8220;If you choose to distribute this deadly poison, you will be held accountable for the lives lost as a result of your actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIVERVIEW, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida man was arrested after investigators linked him to a fatal fentanyl overdose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-318902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}