Families of victims who died from drug overdoses push for criminal charges against dealers

As overdose deaths skyrocket, so has the frustration for some families when their loved one’s death is not charged as a drug-induced homicide.

Her daughter, Mariah Rachel Earp, died May 14, 2020, from a drug overdose.

"It's really comes down to resources and devoting the resources and conducting a full investigation. We do that and you can see by the numbers how difficult these cases are," said Berlin. "Oftentimes you're using drug dealers as witnesses to try and get bigger drug dealers to bigger fish in the drug dealing business, and we try and work our way up the chain as far as we can," explained Berlin.Retired Dallas police officer, Byron Boston, trains officers on how to investigate overdoses as drug-induced homicides.

"With your traditional homicide cases, you do have workable leads, you have gunpowder residue, you have, you know, firearm analysis," said Boston."What detectives should look for and how they should process the scene and search warrants that need to be written. These phones are a treasure trove of evidence," said Almanza, who is also a mother of overdose victim 18-year-old Sydney Schergen. She took a pill and died in 2015.

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