Local drug agents combed Tarrant County Wednesday in search of drug suppliers who may have provided heroin to two people who died this week in Grapevine, one of them a teenager.
Authorities say they believe that heroin could have been ingested by 34-year-old Pablo Brena and 18-year-old Cassidy Seward, a 2011 graduate of Grapevine High School.A final ruling in the deaths will be made after results of toxicology tests, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's website.Grapevine police based their belief that Seward and Brena took heroin on interviews with witnesses."We believe the cases are unrelated in that they didn't know each other," said Grapevine police Sgt. Robert Eberling on Wednesday. "But we believe heroin was involved."Officers with the Tarrant County Narcotics Unit are investigating."The trouble will be that users get their drugs from several suppliers," said Herschel Tebay, commander of the narcotics unit. "It's too early to say if the heroin was stronger than what they had used before."Brena's was the first death reported, on Sunday. The Argyle man was found in a Grapevine apartment in the 800 block of East Walnut Street. He was taken to the emergency room at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine where he died at about 1 a.m. on Sunday.Witnesses have told authorities that Brena had a history of taking heroin, police said.Family members could not be reached Wednesday.Seward was discovered at her home in the 400 block of Holly Street in Grapevine on Tuesday afternoon. She was taken to the emergency room at the Grapevine hospital where she was pronounced dead shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.Relatives of Seward also could not be reached Wednesday.Grapevine-Colleyville school district records indicated that Seward attended Bridges Accelerated Learning Center in Colleyville and completed her school work in April 2011. Her home high school was Grapevine High.On her Facebook page, Seward posted among her favorite "likes" The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. It's the story of Nikki Sixx, a bassist for Motley Crue."I believe the heroin problem was worse last year," Tebay said. "But it's bad when just one person dies from it, especially when they are so young."Domingo Ramirez Jr., 817-390-7763Twitter: @mingoramirezjrHave more to add? News tip? Tell us
