A Ok-9 Officer and its coach lately assisted the Wyoming Freeway Patrol with a significant fentanyl bust.

The Wyoming Freeway Patrol introduced on Friday {that a} Ok-9 Handler was requested to help Particular Brokers with the Wyoming Division of Prison Investigation on Thursday night.

That is based on a press launch from the WHP, which said that Particular Brokers made contact with a person at a gasoline station close to Evanston, Wyoming and have become suspicious.

“The WHP Trooper arrived and deployed his Ok-9 companion,” the discharge said. “The handler noticed a optimistic, educated remaining response to the odor of medication contained in the automobile. a automobile search resulted within the trooper seizing 1,349 M30 fentanyl tablets, 3.89 kilos of methamphetamine, and a pistol.”

The discharge famous that the suspect was a convicted felon and was not allowed to have firearms. The discharge additionally said that Brokers believed that the medication have been being transported to numerous communities inside Wyoming.

“This case marks the primary important fentanyl seizure for the reason that WHP Ok-9 groups have been educated and licensed on fentanyl two weeks in the past,” the discharge mentioned.