{"id":381559,"date":"2026-07-21T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:49:11","slug":"saginaw-man-gets-federal-prison-for-counterfeit-pill-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381559\/","title":{"rendered":"Saginaw man gets federal prison for counterfeit pill death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784674151_391_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters<\/p>\n<p>                Pexels<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old Tarrant County man who sold fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills that caused a fatal overdose in 2023 was sentenced to federal prison, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Chase McCauley, of Saginaw, was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edtx\/pr\/tarrant-county-man-receives-lengthy-federal-prison-sentence-part-homeland-security\">sentenced to more than 17 years<\/a> after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to a news release from the Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Denton County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article278351124.html\">to a home in Argyle on March 8, 2023<\/a>, for a reported overdose. When deputies arrived, they found a person who had died of an apparent drug overdose, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that the individual died from an overdose of fentanyl-laced counterfeit hydrocodone pills that were purchased from McCauley, according to the release. This case was investigated by the Homeland Security Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784674151_720_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters Pexels A 38-year-old Tarrant County man who sold fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-381559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381559","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=381559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}