A $100 drug deal at Taco Bell leads to a fatal overdose for one teen and charges for another: Police

Left: Makayla Peacock. Right: Mallery James (Sandy Springs Police Department).

Left: Makayla Peacock. Right: Mallery James (Sandy Springs Police Department).

Makayla Peacock, only 19 years old, is dead, and police in Georgia say that is because she ate fentanyl-laced pills sold to her by Mallery James when the young women met up at a Taco Bell parking lot in Forsyth County in July.

Police say Peacock bought them from James for $100.

James is also 19 years old.

James, according to a statement from Sandy Springs Police shared on Facebook, is charged with aggravated involuntary manslaughter causing a fentanyl overdose. In April, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law known as “Austin’s Law” which created the category of “aggravated involuntary manslaughter” and allows for the conviction of anyone who causes someone to die by the manufacturing or selling of a substance containing fentanyl.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin as an analgesic, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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