DENVER ( KDVR ) — Friday morning, a big announcement is expected when it comes to fentanyl.
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann and Denver Chief of Police Ron Thomas are announcing an arrest of a drug distributor.
Law enforcement has been making a push to hold drug dealers accountable if someone dies from the drugs they sell, and fentanyl has been a growing issue.
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The announcement will be about the arrest and charges against a man suspected of distributing fentanyl that resulted in death, meaning the drugs they sold killed somebody.
It’s a fairly new charge, “distribution of fentanyl resulting in death” was enacted in Colorado in 2022. So far, this is the sixth time the Denver DA’s office has charged a drug dealer with the crime.
The Common Sense Institute looked into the numbers and said the total cost of fentanyl-related overdose deaths in Colorado was estimated to be $16 billion in 2023. This is over 10 times the cost of fentanyl overdoses from 2017.