SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced Nov. 9 that his office will now be charging convicted drug dealers with murder if they manufacture or sell drugs that result in someone dying. The move comes as fatal fentanyl poisonings have skyrocketed across Orange County and the United States over the last few years. Orange County saw a 1,000 percent increase over the last five years, and statewide deaths increased 1,513 percent, according to Spitzer. “I’m just holding up a penny. The amount of fentanyl that can kill is the amount of fentanyl that can cover Lincoln’s nose. It’s that tiny, it’s that insignificant,” Spitzer said. Many drug dealers and manufacturers knowingly create and sell counterfeit pills, which are identical to prescription pills in color, size, and markings to genuine prescription pills such as Xanax, Oxycodone, Percocet—yet they are laced with fentanyl, Spitzer said. The fentanyl-laced pills are then …