{"id":1481132,"date":"2026-02-17T02:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1481132"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:34:21","slug":"overdose-leads-to-3-murder-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1481132","title":{"rendered":"Overdose leads to murder arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LUFKIN \u2013 The Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested three men for murder after a Lufkin 18-year-old overdosed on fentanyl on Friday. According to the sheriff\u2019s office and our news partner KETK, deputies responded to a reported seizure or overdose at a home on Benton Drive outside of Lufkin. The deputies arrived at the scene and found Sierra Grace Duckworth, 18, of Lufkin, unconscious inside the home.<\/p>\n

Duckworth was taken to a local hospital for treatment but was later pronounced dead. The sheriff\u2019s office said Duckworth\u2019s boyfriend, Coy Allen Cook, 21 of Lufkin, told officers that they had taken some blue fentanyl pills around two hours before the deputies arrived.<\/p>\n

Cook and Logan Wayne Ferguson, 19 of Lufkin, reportedly went to the Hudson home of Roderick \u201cSquirrel\u201d Johnson, 25, to buy the fentanyl. According to the sheriff\u2019s office, a purchase of fentanyl pills was set up via text messages that were later found on Duckworth\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cFerguson told investigators he and Cook went to Johnson\u2019s residence and bought the pills,\u201d A press release from the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u201cUpon return, Cook and Duckworth later took a portion of the pills they had purchased with Duckworth becoming unconscious thereafter. Ferguson stated he was present when Duckworth overdosed but left the house before law enforcement arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputies investigating Duckworth\u2019s death then notified Angelina County District Attorney Amy Wren, and her office helped secure arrest warrants for Cook, Ferguson, and Johnson, and a search warrant for Johnson\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

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Johnson\u2019s Hudson home was searched by the Lufkin Police Department and deputies from the sheriff\u2019s office. Suspected fentanyl, marijuana and a large amount of cash were found during the search, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

Cook, Ferguson and Johnson have each been arrested and charged with murder in this case. Officials suspect that more charges could be filed against the three men.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas law provides for a charge of murder when a person dies as a result of the delivery of any controlled substance that is injected, ingested, inhaled or otherwise introduced into a victim\u2019s body. Area law enforcement officers are seeing an uptick in Fentanyl related arrests and this drug is one of the more dangerous ones that officers are currently dealing with. We urge caution to the public, and to drug users as well, that Fentanyl can be lethal in even small doses.\u201d
\nAngelina County Sheriff Tom Selman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LUFKIN \u2013 The Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested three men for murder after a Lufkin 18-year-old overdosed on fentanyl on Friday. According to the sheriff\u2019s office and our news partner KETK, deputies responded to a reported seizure or overdose at a home on Benton Drive outside of Lufkin. The deputies arrived at the scene … Continue reading Overdose leads to murder arrests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1481190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/Logan-Ferguson-1-e1771338376761-200x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 00:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/Logan-Ferguson-1-e1771338376761-200x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481132"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481828,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481132\/revisions\/1481828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}