A Placer Superior Court jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of second-degree murder in the fentanyl death of his friend, a 20-year-old man who ingested a lethal dose of the synthetic opioid.

Placer County’s first fentanyl murder conviction was Nathaniel Cabacungan. He was the first person in the state of California to be convicted of murder in a fentanyl death. Cabacungan was ...

THAT’S THE VERDICT IN THE FIRST FENTANYL MURDER CASE TO GO TO TRIAL IN PLACER COUNTY. THE JURY FOUND ... 5 at 8:30 a.m. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app ...

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Placer County District Attorney Morgan Gire and other prosecutors in California have taken a new approach to fentanyl deaths: filing murder charges against people who sell or provide fentanyl to ...

About five hours later, medics found him lifeless face down in that bathroom. A Placer County prosecutor on Thursday told a jury that Carson David Schewe had sold fentanyl-laced pill to his friend ...

Two years ago, Schewe was the first defendant in Placer County to be charged with murder in a fentanyl death. Fentanyl is a powerful and potentially addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times ...