A Cedar Park man is headed to prison for a decade after officers say they found dozens of counterfeit M-30 pills laced with fentanyl in his car and at his home, with a 4-year-old child sitting inside the vehicle at the time of his arrest.
According to a Facebook post from the Cedar Park Police Department, investigators with the department’s Organized Crime Unit stopped Wayne Lee Westfall and discovered 69 counterfeit M-30 tablets in his vehicle. A follow-up search at his residence turned up 137 more of the same pills. The department’s post states that Westfall was sentenced on July 1 and reiterates that counterfeit tablets are often pressed to look like legitimate prescription medications, while even a small amount of fentanyl can be deadly.
What court records show
Online listings identify the case as State of Texas v. Wayne Lee Westfall, case no. 24-1611-K26, on a first-degree felony charge of manufacture or delivery of fentanyl in the 4 to 200 gram range, with an offense date listed in August 2024. Those details line up with the police department’s public timeline and appear in case summaries and public court listings, according to My Texas Defense Lawyer online court records.
Why M-30 pills are so dangerous
Counterfeit M-30 tablets are commonly pressed to look like oxycodone, but many are actually made with illegally manufactured fentanyl. That combination has turned a familiar-looking blue pill into a high-risk gamble. The Drug Enforcement Administration reports that its lab testing found 6 out of 10 fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills contained a potentially lethal dose, and notes that as little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be fatal for someone without an opioid tolerance, according to the DEA.
A separate analysis of suspected exposures to counterfeit M-30 pills found that many of those cases required hospitalization and critical care, underscoring just how severe these poisonings can be, according to the CDC.
Legal notes and community impact
Court listings describe Westfall’s charge as a first-degree felony under Texas law, consistent with the fentanyl quantity alleged in the case. The Cedar Park Police Department’s post states that he received a 10-year sentence on July 1, according to the Cedar Park Police Department.
In that same post, the department urges residents never to take pills that were not prescribed to them and to store medications securely away from children, warning that the risks only grow when counterfeit tablets circulate in the community. Local officials have increasingly leaned on prevention, drug-checking efforts, and wider access to overdose-reversal tools as fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills continue to show up across the country.
