LUBBOCK, Texas — On Friday morning, former Texas Tech University professor Daniel Taylor was sentenced in federal court to 40 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for his role in a fentanyl trafficking ring involving two variations of the drug that Taylor created. He will serve his sentence concurrently with his pending Lubbock County case.
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EverythingLubbock.com previously reported that DEA members surveyed Taylor and the other co-defendants for months and learned their operation was being run out of the Executive Inn.
After months of investigation, court documents revealed that authorities ultimately searched Taylor’s residence with a search warrant. They found a recipe for the street drug “Pink Flamingo,” a variation of fentanyl that Taylor produced. Authorities also found a case containing doses of Narcan, baggies containing suspected fentanyl powder, flamingo stickers and more…