{"id":381440,"date":"2026-07-21T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:04:08","slug":"austin-fentanyl-dealer-sentenced-in-deadly-capmetro-bus-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381440\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin fentanyl dealer sentenced in deadly CapMetro bus overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Austin fentanyl dealer tied to a man’s fatal overdose <\/a>aboard a Capital Metro bus<\/a> has been sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Daltha Ray Terrell, 31, also known as \u201cGoo Ray,\u201d was sentenced to 220 months in prison after pleading guilty to distributing fentanyl and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Western District of Texas said.<\/p>\n

Investigators linked Terrell to the December 2023 overdose using surveillance video, the victim’s cell phone and Cash App records. Authorities said the man boarded a Capital Metro bus near Terrell’s home after buying drugs from him. An autopsy determined the man died of fentanyl poisoning.<\/p>\n

The investigation began in March 2023 after Terrell went to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his arm and told authorities someone had shot him. Investigators later determined he accidentally shot himself while pulling a handgun from his jacket.<\/p>\n

A subsequent search of Terrell’s home uncovered about 2,000 blue pills containing fentanyl, two handguns and a shotgun, prosecutors said. One handgun was equipped with a conversion device that allowed it to fire as a machine gun. The shotgun had been reported stolen during a home invasion about a month earlier.<\/p>\n

Officers also searched Terrell\u2019s vehicle and found about 636 blue pills marked \u201cM-30\u201d and two firearms. Laboratory testing confirmed the pills contained fentanyl.<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, Terrell distributed more than 400 grams of fentanyl between June 2023 and his arrest in May 2024. He pleaded guilty in January.<\/p>\n

The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Austin Police Department investigated the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Austin fentanyl dealer tied to a man’s fatal overdose aboard a Capital Metro bus has been sentenced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-381440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381440","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=381440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}