![]() The meeting was a follow-up to a similar roundtable last month on drug abuse. This past Saturday in Saratoga, local officials held a community awareness meeting focused on identifying the effects of illegal narcotics on users. Quality control and customer safety are not part of the black-market drug trade business model. He said some tablets are relatively harmless while others are instantly lethal. Hardee said the amount of fentanyl can vary widely between batches. The counterfeit M30 pills are made by cartel suppliers. Chief Morris said the counterfeit tablets are purposely made to resemble prescription Oxycodone. Hardee said 1,349 fentanyl laced pills labeled “M30” were found during the search. Their efforts may have partly paid off with the Evanston bust. The common thread is the drugs found at the scenes.ĭCI is investigating the source of the drugs. ![]() ![]() DCI believes the overdose deaths on both sides of I-80 are related. The 34-year-old man’s name has not been released to protect the investigation. Less than two weeks later, a still unnamed Hanna man died under similar circumstances. The fentanyl bust comes after the Town of Saratoga was shocked by the death of a young couple in February, who were killed when they ingested what they apparently thought was cocaine. Hardee said the unnamed WHP officer and his canine partner discovered a large stash of illegal narcotics. Suspicious that they had stopped a drug wholesaler, Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation agents on the scene called Highway Patrol’s new opioid searching team. Joshua Hardee with the Wyoming Highway Patrol talked to Bigfoot 99 how the bust went down. Last week, a large stash of fentanyl and methamphetamine was discovered before it could reach the illegal drug markets operating in Wyoming communities. Three area people died last month from the addictive painkiller that can stop a person’s ability to breathe minutes before they lose consciousness. Carbon County residents are getting a fast education about its presence in Wyoming. Photo – Fentanyl Pills – Courtesy Saratoga Police DepartmentĪfter hearing and reading about, or even seeing first-hand, the devastating effects of the dangerous narcotic fentanyl in America’s big cities for years.
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