Ten kilograms of methamphetamine laced with fentanyl were seized at a downtown hotel, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
Hundreds of people gathered for the third annual Soles Walking for Souls event, marking the largest turnout yet for the fentanyl awareness walk.
Social media influencer Stephanie Guerra joined KSAT on Friday to discuss weekend happenings in and around San Antonio.
The number of lab results that show fentanyl combined with other drugs has doubled since 2020. More specifically, the number of results that were positive for both fentanyl and marijuana has doubled since 2020.
On Sunday, Angel Moms will join with elected officials, advocates and community members to fight fentanyl and honor lives lost.
Naloxone Texas is working to ensure the life-saving medication is easily accessible and available at every college campus in the state.
A man wanted on multiple warrants was taken into custody Tuesday during a joint operation between the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in far west Bexar County.
Three separate law enforcement agencies, including the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, arrested a man on Tuesday who is accused of possessing dozens of grams of fentanyl.
It's the first free Narcan dispenser of its kind in San Antonio. The medication helps reverse opioid poisoning or overdose and has saved countless lives.
Opponents fear that fentanyl test strips will increase the usage of the deadly drug.
A 28-year-old Kyle man was arrested and charged in connection with murder following an overdose death investigation in late 2024.
A man in jail was served with an arrest warrant in connection with a woman’s overdose death, according to the Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office.
Fentanyl, tax cuts and a possible recession are all things you’ve probably discussed with your family. That’s why KSAT took your concerns directly to Texas Senator John Cornyn.
Texas State University has received a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to combat fentanyl use in Hays County schools.
A new study from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has revealed fentanyl and other pharmaceutical medications were found in common bottlenose dolphins along the Texas coastline.
A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with fatally poisoning a man with fentanyl-laced pills, according to a press release from the Kyle Police Department.
Fentanyl poisonings have law enforcement and devastated community members on high alert. On Monday, three teenagers in Kyle, Texas, were poisoned by fentanyl-laced pills.
A handful of mothers who lost their children to fentanyl poisoning created an enormous movement, which led to a long line of local, state, and federal leaders vowing to do their part in stopping fentanyl poisoning.
Moms who have lost their kids to fentanyl poisoning have turned their pain into action. For Americans age 18-45, the leading cause of death is fentanyl overdose, and they want to stop that.
Fentanyl poisoning is a crisis that continues to surge across the United States. Fentanyl-related deaths have increased over the last four years and are responsible for taking the lives of 7,000 Texans alone.
A San Antonio man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl-laced pills through the mail that led to the death of an El Paso woman.
Local mothers who lost their children to fentanyl were gut-wrenched last week to hear a batch of drugs laced with fentanyl killed nine people in Austin and caused about 75 to needed Narcan rescue. This tragedy has strengthened their resolve to educate their community and prevent more deaths.
A bad batch of drugs has led to an opioid overdose outbreak in Austin. Its proximity to San Antonio and surrounding areas has local officials on high alert.
Texas officials are investigating at least nine recent deaths involving an unusual spike of opioid overdoses in Austin.
Rise Inspire Academy senior Zachary Combs and his classmates organized a festival on Saturday dedicated to educating people on the dangers of fentanyl.
Mark Elliot Stool, 67, pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and one count of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in serious bodily injury, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Elberto Roy Trevino Jr., 50, conspired with others to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl in July 2022, a United States Attorney’s Office media release said.
Texas is one of a few states where fentanyl strips are still illegal, considered drug paraphernalia. Federal lawmakers are trying to change that. Senate Bill 2569 is continuing to gain bipartisan support, an update applauded by local families who lost loved ones to fentanyl.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced economic sanctions against 15 people and two companies that the United States says are linked to a Mexican drug cartel.
Election officials around the country are stocking up on the overdose reversal medication naloxone after a series of suspicious mailings — some containing traces of fentanyl — were sent to vote centers or government buildings in six states.
Threatening letters sent to local election offices in at least five states, some including fentanyl, are the latest concern for local election workers around the country.
The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 13 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel and four Mexico-based firms accused of trafficking fentanyl into the United States.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid.
The first Soles Walking 4 Souls Fentanyl Awareness Walk happened on Saturday. Community members and leaders came together to raise awareness and push education efforts on fentanyl poisoning.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 19-year-old driver after deputies found 40,000 pills that are believed to contain fentanyl in his car.
It’s the first of its kind in San Antonio — a walk to remember those lost to fentanyl poisoning and a rally to stop it from happening. KSAT checked in with two leading recovery experts speaking Saturday, intending to make big change with education and breaking stigma.
The 1-mile walk ends with a candlelight vigil honoring and celebrating the lives lost to fentanyl poisoning and to inspire action against its misuse.
The Hays County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 15-year-old student as a possible overdose, according to the superintendent of the Hays Consolidated Independent School District.
The nonprofit organization, This Must Be the Place, will be handing out Naloxone at ACL as a way to educate people about the dangers of Fentanyl and to get the life-saving opioid reversal medicine in more hands.
The Biden administration is taking aim at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug.
About 150 people from families who have lost a loved one to fentanyl poisoning have gathered at the headquarters of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the U.S. faces its deadliest overdose crisis.
An Eagle Pass man was arrested during a traffic stop on I-10 in Guadalupe County after authorities found over $1.2 million worth of Fentanyl stashed in his pickup truck.
On Thursday, a San Antonio family finally got the relief they’d been seeking for the last three years.
There are countless heartbroken families who have lost loved ones due to fentanyl overdoses. Now, some of those families have a voice through a new documentary.
Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.
Two men have been sentenced in connection with a fentanyl distribution organization that caused overdoses in the Austin area, federal authorities said.
KSAT aired a special Wednesday, “Fighting Fentanyl: It’s Everyone’s Problem.” It was immediately followed by a town hall event where anchor Stephania Jimenez spoke with a child psychiatrist, a high school senior, and a school district security director about the dangerous synthetic opioid and how parents can warn their children about it.
Lawmakers are passing laws in an attempt to slow the rise in fentanyl overdoses, but drug advocates warn the opioid is mostly a booster for other illegal drugs.
A growing number of states are decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips, seeking to protect people who use drugs from unwitting exposure to the highly potent synthetic opioid ravaging the U.S. with overdose deaths.
A Bexar County mother hopes sharing the story about her son’s overdose death will help save someone’s life this holiday weekend.
The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador talked with President Joe Biden about immigration and the fentanyl crisis.
An 18-year-old man was arrested in the death of a Hays CISD high school student who overdosed on fentanyl last month, according to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office.
Over the course of a year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used the hammer of its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial restrictions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar joined Leading SA to discuss recent crime trends around our area, fighting fentanyl, school safety initiatives, and the top priorities he’s implementing to crack down on crime in the county.
There’s finally good news in the fight against fentanyl. Researchers in Houston are developing a powerful weapon against the synthetic opioid — a vaccine that stops fentanyl from killing people.
A San Antonio-based nonprofit is among a group of organizations in Texas speaking up to help legalize fentanyl test strips.
The Texas Department of Public Safety seized over 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl in a South Texas city Monday, according to officials.
Texas lawmakers want tougher criminal penalties for possession of delta-8 and fentanyl. But that would mean much more work for the crime labs handling most of the drug testing for the state’s 254 counties.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Department held its first fentanyl awareness presentation at Morgan’s Wonderland Camp as part of its “one pill can kill” campaign.
Don’t wait — that’s the message a local judge and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration have for parents when it comes to teaching their kids about the dangers of fentanyl.
New Braunfels police have arrested eight people as part of a street crimes operation bust, which also resulted in the seizure of approximately 6500 fentanyl-laced pills and additional drugs, cash and weapons.
Narcan is a powerful tool in the fight against fentanyl, and a local treatment center in San Antonio is showing people how to administer it to help save lives.
Texas is attempting to address the fentanyl crisis gripping schools by having staff learn how to administer lifesaving medication.
A San Antonio man has pleaded guilty to giving a woman fentanyl and leaving her alone in a hotel room, where she overdosed and died, according to federal authorities.
Xylazine is a tranquilizer medication for large animals like horses, cattle or even elephants. Yet it made it's way into illegal drugs on streets across America.
Only three milligrams of fentanyl is enough to kill an average adult male. The potent synthetic opioid is having a significant impact on how police in Pearsall do their jobs.
It’s a crisis that a local school district has seen up close. The Hays Consolidated Independent School District confirmed at least four of its students have died after overdosing on fentanyl since last summer.
Mark Fahlsing says he is trying to focus on all the good things his daughter did for her community through volunteer work and teaching kids. He also wants parents to warn kids and about fentanyl.
A San Antonio man who said a hospital failed to sedate him during an outpatient procedure last fall went as far as to get an independent drug screening to prove the powerful drugs were not in his system.
San Antonio Area law enforcement cadets are being trained on how to take illicit drugs off the streets without coming in contact with them and becoming ill, things like fentanyl and carfentanyl are among the deadliest and most popular on the streets.
Bluebonnet Trails Community Services partners with school districts in rural areas to provide counseling and support to students and families facing addiction.
A state lawmaker who introduced a bill to make fentanyl test strips legal to save lives says the issue should be revisited during the upcoming legislative session.
Danica Kaprosy was found lying face down, unresponsive, on her bed last July. Her family blames her death on a fentanyl-laced pill.
A Texas Department of Public Safety tooper was hospitalized after being exposed to fentanyl during a vehicle search in Bexar County, state officials reported Tuesday.