AUSTIN, Texas — A Hays County jury found a 24-year-old guilty of possessing a lethal amount of fentanyl in San Marcos that resulted in the death of another person.
Hays County District Attorney Kelly Higgins said that police and EMS medics arrived to a Motel 6 in San Marcos responding to an overdose call, when they found a person unconscious. Medics attempted to revive the person, but they were unsuccessful and pronounced him dead.
In the room directly above, police and medics located 24-year-old Caden Farese unconscious. Farese was successfully revived, and police found a lethal amount of fentanyl in his room.
Farese was then charged with a count of possession of a controlled substance - fentanyl, of which he was found guilty by a Hays County jury. He was also charged with a count of delivery of a controlled substance but was found not guilty of that charge.
Farese will spend 18 months in state prison.
This was the first fentanyl-related case brought before a Hays County jury.
“My office remains committed to seeking tough sentences in cases involving the deadly controlled substance Fentanyl," Higgins said in regard to the case.