Boy’s death possibly linked to fentanyl-laced pills

A 15-year-old boy’s death this week is believed to be linked to fentanyl-laced pills, North Las Vegas police said.

Detectives responded to a Dignity Health hospital late Wednesday after the boy died, police spokesman Alex Cuevas said Friday. North Las Vegas police received information Thursday from Clark County School District police about students who had been taken to local hospitals by their parents.

Detectives learned that five children, including the 15-year-old who died, had taken pills on Wednesday. The pills were suspected to contain fentanyl, and school district police recovered all outstanding pills, according to Cuevas.

“These students were all part of a group from Sedway Middle School,” Cuevas said in a text message Friday.

Cuevas said the investigation is ongoing.

Last month, prosecutors charged a man with murder in the overdose death of a 13-year-old girl. Marcas Crowley, 32, is suspected of supplying Daniella Young, a Summerlin middle schooler who died in October, with the drugs that led to her fatal overdose.

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