{"id":381065,"date":"2026-07-21T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:47:10","slug":"tarrant-county-man-gets-17-years-in-prison-for-fentanyl-overdose-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381065\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County man gets 17 years in prison for fentanyl overdose death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Saginaw man was sentenced to more than 17 years<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/courts\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> in federal prison<\/a> this month after pleading guilty to supplying fentanyl-laced pills that caused a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2023\/08\/17\/tarrant-county-man-indicted-for-fentanyl-distribution-overdose-death\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> fatal overdose in 2023<\/a>, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Chase McCauley, 38, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to a news release from the Eastern District of Texas United States Attorney&#8217;s Office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said McCauley was arrested after an investigation in March 2023 into the death of a person at a residence on Stonecrest Road in Argyle. An investigation\u00a0determined\u00a0fentanyl was the confirmed cause of death and McCauley was the victim&#8217;s fentanyl supplier, according to his indictment.<\/p>\n<p>The victim died from an overdose of fentanyl-laced counterfeit hydrocodone pills, which they bought from McCauley, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Saginaw man was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison this month after pleading guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,89512,92331,89217],"class_list":["post-381065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-courts","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381065","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=381065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}