{"id":382245,"date":"2026-07-22T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:59:16","slug":"saginaw-man-pleads-guilty-for-role-in-fatal-fentanyl-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382245\/","title":{"rendered":"Saginaw man pleads guilty for role in fatal fentanyl overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SAGINAW, Texas &#8211; A Saginaw man will spend years in federal prison for selling fentanyl-laced pills that lead to a fatal overdose.<\/p>\n<p> Fentanyl overdose sentencing   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/kevin-chase-mccauley-mug.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">38-year-old Kevin Chase McCauley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He was sentenced to 17 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard A. Schell on July 20.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On March 8, 2023, the Denton County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to the death of an individual on Stonecrest Road in Argyle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An investigation revealed McCauley sold the victim fentanyl-laced counterfeit hydrocodone pills, which they later overdosed on.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">McCauley&#8217;s case is part of a Homeland Security Task Force initiative titled Protecting the American People Against Invasion.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The initiative&#8217;s goal is to eliminate criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/saginaw\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saginaw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAGINAW, Texas &#8211; A Saginaw man will spend years in federal prison for selling fentanyl-laced pills that lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,63790,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-382245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-saginaw","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382245","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=382245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}