Investigators say they’ve busted an operation in Celina that's been funneling tens of thousands of fake prescription pills across North Texas.
The pills are round and blue they’re known as “M-30s” or “Blues”. Officials say they look like oxycodone but they’re laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.
"It is being mixed in labs, not by chemists, with fillers, crushed up baby aspirin, baby powder - stuff like that - so it’s fentanyl and then a filler, then in a pill press, it’s made to look like a pharmaceutical grade pill but it’s not," a CPD investigator told NBC 5.
This CPD investigator also told NBC 5 that the investigation started with a call about two men acting suspiciously near the Celina square all the way back in September. The pill operation has since been connected to one overdose death at a Dallas hotel and more than a dozen other overdoses in McKinney, Dallas, Prosper, and Celina.
Nine people have been arrested in connection to the illegal pill operation three are facing federal charges and six are facing state charges.
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