Woman facing murder charge in fentanyl overdose

Alarmed that his 21-year-old girl had not near her locked chamber for hours, a Las Vegas antheral kicked successful the doorway to find her dormant from a cause overdose.

Next to the assemblage of Adrianna Folks, investigators recovered charred aluminum foil, a integrative straw and a partially smoked pill that aboriginal tested affirmative for fentanyl, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Recently, Metro arrested the pistillate investigators allege sold Folks the counterfit medicine pill that killed her successful aboriginal March.

Aria Styron, 21, was arrested extracurricular a Las Vegas movie theatre and jailed past week connected 1 number each of second-degree-murder and a drug-related felony, tribunal records show.

Styron was being held without bail and owed successful tribunal Thursday morning, records show.

Folks died connected March 4 from fentanyl toxicity, the Clark County coroner’s bureau ruled, classifying her overdose arsenic an accident. Folks was 1 of astatine slightest 174 radical killed by fentanyl, the synthetic opioid said to beryllium up-to 100 times stronger than morphine, this twelvemonth done August, Metro figures showed.

A report precocious made nationalist by wellness officials determined that overdose deaths successful 2020 among Nevada residents nether the property of 25 astir tripled from the erstwhile year, with Metro forecasting a much deadly extremity of 2021.

Metro has progressively been pursuing execution charges for suspects accused of providing fatal cause doses. Styron is astatine slightest the 3rd fishy facing specified charges this year.

Police said Styron sold illicit drugs done the societal media app Snapchat. The tech institution provided investigators with chat logs that linked the Styron and Folks, according to Styron’s apprehension study released Wednesday.

Folks’ household told constabulary that she had struggled with addiction, but believed she had been escaped from immoderate amerciable drugs for astir a year. That sobriety, they theorized, ended with her boyfriend’s overdose decease a mates months earlier she died, according to the apprehension report.

The nighttime earlier Folks’ begetter recovered her dead, she told a person that she bought oxycodone from Styron, according to police, who confirmed the allegations done telephone messages.

That aforesaid night, Folks appearead sober and was watching a movie earlier she went retired to drawback food. But investigators besides pinged her determination astatine Styron’s apartment, wherever constabulary alleged that the cause transaction occurred.

Folks had known she was taking pills that were chopped with fentanyl. She had taken to Reddit, a fashionable online forum, to item her experiences with the drug, according to Styron’s apprehension report.

“So I conscionable started utilizing opiates again and person been smoking ‘oxies’ pressed with (fentanyl),” Folks wrote the nighttime of March 3 with a Reddit relationship constabulary linked to her, according to the report.

She wrote that she was “nodding” successful and retired of consciousness, constabulary said.

“Let maine cognize if this has happened to immoderate of (you all),” the station continued. “Or if you person immoderate penetration arsenic to what mightiness beryllium happening?”

Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez astatine rtorres@reviewjournal.com. Follow him connected Twitter @rickytwrites.