The man was sentenced to life behind bars for providing medications that led to a man’s fatal overdose.
FT WELL WORTH, Texas– A new regulation took effect in 2023, allowing for murder charges for any individual who provides or delivers fentanyl leading to fatality, and Tarrant Area just tried someone under that legislation for the very first time.
Jacob Lindsay, 48, was condemned of murder and was sentenced to life in prison for delivering drugs bring about the deadly overdose of 26 -year-old Brandon Harrison
Officials claim Harrison died on Sept. 18, 2023, in Fort Well worth after taking fentanyl and methamphetamine. Lindsay was located to have actually sold him the medicines, resulting in him being prosecuted under the brand-new regulation.
“This sentence and sentence send a clear and effective message,” Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells stated in a declaration. “If you make or disperse fentanyl that creates the fatality of one more person, we will charge you with murder. We are committed to getting this poisonous substance off our streets.”
Sorrells launched a Narcotics Prosecution Device in 2023 to handle instances associated with fentanyl and various other high-impact medications.
“This sends out a message to all the Jacob Lindsays around,” Harrison’s father, Richard Harrison, stated in a statement. “If you [sell fentanyl and someone dies], you are mosting likely to forfeit your right to live among us for the rest of your life.”
While Lindsay was the very first person in Tarrant Region to go to test under the brand-new regulation, 19 -year-old Kaeden Farish was the initial individual punished. Farish begged guilty to murder in October 2024 after marketing fentanyl-laced tablets that created the death of a 17 -year-old. He is serving a 19 -year prison sentence.
In April 2025, Collin County safeguarded its very first fentanyl-related murder conviction , with Ciana Armour sentenced to 25 years for Mitchel Pultz’s overdose fatality.