Fentanyl Crisis Is Main Topic At District Attorney Thien Ho’s Town Hall

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Sacramento County district attorney Thien Ho discusses the increasing fentanyl deaths in Sacramento County at a town hall in Elk Grove on Feb. 27. Robert J. Hansen, OBSERVER From 2021 to date, over 800 people have died from fentanyl related deaths in Sacramento County, according to the coroner’s office. Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho held a town hall in Elk Grove on Feb. 27 to address Sacramento’s growing fentanyl crisis. “That’s more than all the gun related homicides in the last decade,” Ho told a crowd of about 50 people.& Ho said that people aged 14 to 21 have been most impacted by the wave of fentanyl deaths. His office has informed over 100,000 students in Sacramento high schools about the dangers of fentanyl through educational programs in the past three years. “What is happening is that kids are going on Instagram, Snapchat and they’re going out to essentially get some drugs,” Ho said. “What they don’t know is that 99% of the drugs that are on the street are counterfeits and 99% of them are laced with fentanyl.” In 2021, 215 people died from fentanyl poisoning, 16% of whom were...