{"id":124942,"date":"2026-01-15T22:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:51:15","slug":"austin-man-arrested-after-investigators-find-large-amounts-of-fentanyl-other-drugs-during-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124942\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin man arrested after investigators find large amounts of fentanyl, other drugs during search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/paul-torres-jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; An Austin man was arrested following an investigation into an overdose in Williamson County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The investigation led to the seizure of large amounts of fentanyl and other drugs in Austin.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">After an overdose in Williamson County in December 2025, an investigation was launched by the Williamson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Detectives identified 35-year-old Paul Torres Jr., of Austin, as the suspect involved in selling drugs, including fentanyl, throughout Williamson County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On Jan. 14, a search warrant was issued in the 6000 block of Derby Downs Drive in Austin. During the search, several illegal drugs were seized:<\/p>\n<p> Cocaine \u2013 1002.9gCrack Cocaine &#8211; 17.1gFentanyl &#8211; 211.9gHeroin \u2013 532gMethamphetamine \u2013 592.6gAlprazolam \u2013 17.2g (66 Pills)Psilocybin \u2013 29.4gPromethazine \u2013 430.5gMarijuana \u2013 1.3lbsCash &#8211; $17,285 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This is an ongoing investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Williamson County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williamson County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; An Austin man was arrested following an investigation into an overdose in Williamson County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,394,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-124942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-travis-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}