Law enforcement and prosecutors from other counties want to know more about Riverside County’s crackdown, which has resulted in the filing of 19 murder charges in connection with 20 fentanyl-…
A partnership between the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office to prosecute suspected drug dealers for murder in fentanyl-related deaths is gaining attention statewide.
“Our Office is committed to prosecuting these crimes using all available county, state and federal resources. In doing so, we seek to bring closure to the victim’s families, and accountability to illicit drug dealers,” District Attorney Jason Anderson said in a statement. Capelouto, a student at Arizona State University, was home for the holidays when she bought what she thought was an oxycodone pill, via the social media platform Snapchat, from McDowell. What she got was aRaymond Tyrrell II, 19, enters the courtroom for his preliminary hearing on Friday. Tyrrell is charged with murder in connection with the Feb. 24, 2021 fatal fentanyl overdose of 16-year-old Jenna Lynn Gordon.
Gordon and Tyrrell had ingested an M30 fentanyl pill — crushed into powder, split into two lines and snorted by both — in Jenna’s bedroom at her French Valley home. At Tyrrell’s preliminary hearing at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta, Jenna’s mother, Tammy Lyon-Gordon, testified she found the two unconscious in the bedroom and called 911. Tyrrell was resuscitated and survived, but Jenna did not.
“I’d like to hire 100 more investigators to do fentanyl deaths, but that can’t happen, so we’re doing the best we can,” Bianco said, adding that deputies from other subtations, in the areas where the alleged crimes occurred, are pulled in to assist in the investigations.
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