October 21, 2022
Agencies from all around the Tahoe Basin responded to a report of fentanyl exposure at the Douglas County Sheriff's Substation in Stateline. Ashleigh Goodwin/Tahoe Daily Tribune
A half-dozen people in Douglas County succumbed to accidental fentanyl overdoses during 2023, according to coroner’s statistics revealed on Jan. 26.
A drug runner, who brought the fentanyl that sent five Douglas County deputies to the hospital last year, was sentenced to up to life in prison on Monday.
An Aug. 8-18 trial in Douglas County District Court in connection with an Oct. 20, 2022, fentanyl arrest in Stateline.
Regina K. Rojas, 35, was sentenced to up to 32 years in prison Monday after admitting to selling fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin
A woman admitted she brought more than 20 ounces of fentanyl to Douglas County during three drug buys, the last of which resulted in five deputies having to be hospitalized for exposure to the lethal drug.
Lake Tahoe agencies responded to Stateline substation around 8 p.m. Thursday
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