AUSTIN, Texas — A woman has been arrested and charged with murder after allegedly selling fentanyl that led to an overdose death in February.
According to the Bastrop County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a call reporting a deceased person in northeast Bastrop. When deputies arrived, they found a 19-year-old woman unresponsive in a bed. She was declared dead on the scene.
While searching the scene, investigators found a powdery white substance that was determined to be fentanyl. The BCSO Narcotics Unit then began investigating how the woman obtained the deadly drug.
Investigators later determined that the woman had traveled to Austin the night before her death to buy fentanyl, and identified the seller as 29-year-old Alba Karina Canales. According to BCSO, Canales was found to have an extensive history of trafficking and using illegal drugs.
Canales was later arrested on a Bastrop County murder warrant in Williamson County. She was in possession of fentanyl and other narcotics at the time of her arrest, BCSO says.
Canales is currently in the Bastrop County jail on a $100,000 bond.