Community mourns as details emerge of Carrollton’s fentanyl overdose

A wave of shock swept through the community when Details of redundancy emergese of nine Carrollton-Farmers Branch students.

In an eleven-page sworn letter, investigators detailed the case against the Carrollton couple, 21-year-old Luis Navarrete and 29-year-old Magali Mejia Cano, who were involved in the overdose of nine teenagers, three of whom were fatal.

The document describes how detectives monitored a house on Highland Drive for several days. They watched as the couple made hand-to-hand transactions with several people who sometimes came on foot.

As details become known, word of mouth spreads among a community of people all too familiar with this heartache. Just a year ago, Ofi Moreno and Frank Moreno lost their son Sebastian to fentanyl. They said he took half a pill given to him by someone at work for back pain and died at home.

“He was an amazing person; he just had a heart like no other,” Ofi Moreno said. “We did not know about the existence of fentanyl. He crept up to our house and just destroyed it.”

Today, their son’s face is featured on a billboard in North Richland Hills, a partnership with Lamar Advertising and the advocacy organization Rachel’s Angels.

Moreno’s son was 24 years old. She said the fact that the Carrollton teenagers were between 13 and 17 years old was unthinkable.

“It just breaks our hearts when we see all these young people. They are getting younger and younger,” she said.

In an affidavit, the 14-year-old victim, who visits R.L. High School Turner overdose at her home on December 24th. Less than a month later, detectives stated that she again overdosed at her home and located the place of residence where the drugs came from; the same house that the detectives followed.

Moreno said she will continue to raise awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and that she now has a mission with three new names and faces to be put on billboards along with her son’s name.

“It hurts more to talk to them,” she said. “They have no idea what hit their houses.”

The Dallas Drug Enforcement Administration tells NBC 5 that the case is still open as detectives follow up on leads. Luis Eduardo Navarrete and Magali Cano are charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess to distribute a controlled substance.