{"id":380208,"date":"2026-07-20T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:11:08","slug":"saginaw-man-sentenced-to-17-years-in-federal-prison-for-north-texas-fentanyl-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380208\/","title":{"rendered":"Saginaw man sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for North Texas fentanyl death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Saginaw man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for supplying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fentanyl\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fentanyl\u2011tainted pill<\/a> that led to a fatal overdose in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Texas<\/a>, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Chase McCauley, 38, received 210 months from U.S. District Judge Richard A. Schell on Monday. McCauley previously admitted to conspiring to distribute and possess fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies with the Denton County Sheriff&#8217;s Office were called to a home on Stonecrest Road in Argyle on March 8, 2023, where they found a person who had died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators later determined the victim overdosed after taking counterfeit hydrocodone pills containing fentanyl that McCauley had sold, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated through the Homeland Security Task Force, a federal initiative focused on dismantling transnational criminal networks and drug\u2011trafficking operations.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Saginaw man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for supplying a fentanyl\u2011tainted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2111,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-380208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fentanyl","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380208","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=380208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}