16-year old arrested after Notre Dame Prep student overdoses on fentanyl pill

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottsdale police have arrested a Notre Dame Prep student who they say gave a fellow student a pill that led him to overdose.

The 17-year-old boy who overdosed was found last Wednesday evening in a Scottsdale home. First responders gave him multiple doses of Narcan and took him to a hospital. Police said he has made a full recovery.

The next morning, Scottsdale Police Department officers followed up at the school, where they found that school officials had identified a 16-year-old boy as the person who gave the pill to the overdosed teen.

Police found seven pills and other drug paraphernalia in the 16-year-old’s car and arrested him. Officers found two more pills in his home.

In a Monday release, police said they had determined that the pills are “counterfeit prescription narcotics containing fentanyl.”

Police investigated tips that a third student had received a pill, and when officers checked on him, he was fine. He denied ever receiving a pill from the suspect.

The teen suspect was later released but he faces further charges through the Maricopa County Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office.