AUSTIN, Texas — A murder warrant revealed how authorities arrested a woman in connection to a fentanyl poisoning in Bastrop.
Alba Karina Canales, 29, was arrested and charged with the murder of a 19-year-old woman who was found unresponsive at a treatment facility.
In February, the Bastrop County Sheriff's Office responded to a house for recovering addicts getting treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. When they arrived, they found the 19-year-old dead in her bed.
After searching her room, a powdery white substance was discovered in a shoe in her closet, later determined to be fentanyl. The sheriff's office then began investigating how the woman obtained the deadly drug.
Investigators learned the woman's friend, who was removed from the recovery home for failing a drug test, wanted to buy heroin with the 19-year-old. The two then allegedly traveled to Austin to meet with Canales to buy $50 worth of fentanyl instead.
The two smoked the fentanyl in the parking lot before returning to the home, according to the murder warrant. They split the remaining fentanyl before parting ways. Phone records confirmed it was the same fentanyl allegedly purchased from Canales.
The 19-year-old was found dead the next morning after using the fentanyl multiple times in one day, authorities said. An autopsy determined her main cause of death as the toxic effects of fentanyl, contributed by methamphetamine and prescribed medications.
Meanwhile, the sheriff's office said Canales has an extensive history of trafficking and using illegal drugs. She is currently in the Bastrop County jail on a $100,000 bond.
