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Affidavit: Texas man admits he knew there was fentanyl in pills that killed his coworker

Dylan King, 26, died from an overdose after he took the drugs with his girlfriend, according to affidavit.

A North Texas man who was charged with murder admitted he knowingly sold fentanyl-laced drugs that ended up killing his co-worker in January, an arrest-warrant affidavit says.

Pedro Martinez, 31, was charged with murder in the January death of Dylan King, 26. As of Friday, Martinez is booked in Denton County jail with a bond set to $250,000. It was not immediately clear if Martinez has an attorney.

On Jan. 21, Denton police responded to a call in the 500 block of Inman Street from someone who said her boyfriend had taken something and would not wake up, the affidavit said. The Denton Fire Department arrived on the scene and pronounced the caller’s boyfriend, later identified as King, dead at the scene.

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According to the affidavit, King’s girlfriend told investigators that two days earlier, King said he was going to buy “percs” — a term used for the prescription drug Percocet and the fake pills that look like the drug — from one of his co-workers named Pedro. King, however, did not get the drugs from co-workers at that time.

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On the morning of his death, King told his girlfriend he had gotten the “percs” from Pedro, and she described them to police as little blue pills with “30″ written on them, the affidavit says. Both King and his girlfriend took the pills around 7 a.m. King was unresponsive when his girlfriend woke up several hours later.

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The Tarrant County Medical Examiner determined King’s cause of death to be combined cocaine and fentanyl toxicity.

Investigators determined a man named Pedro — later identified as Martinez — was employed at the same Jack in the Box in Corinth where King was employed, according to the affidavit. Investigators spoke with Martinez on June 18 at the Denton County jail where he was being held on other charges. After he was read his Miranda rights, Martinez admitted he gave King two “percs” at work the night before he died, knowing they contained fentanyl, according to the affidavit.

Officers obtained the warrant for a murder charge on the day they spoke with Martinez in the Denton County jail. According to a news release from Denton police, Martinez is the fifth person to be charged for murder in connection with a fentanyl overdose since a state law went into effect last year creating a criminal offense for murder for supplying fentanyl leading to someone’s death.

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