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Early on Dec. 18, Joshua Crook was located and arrested at a local motel and has been in custody since then.

The DEA and its partners will collect tablets, capsules, patches and other forms of prescription drugs.

A K-9 Officer and its trainer recently assisted the Wyoming Highway Patrol with a major fentanyl bust.

Kevin Johnson objected to the assistant district attorney's characterization of his criminal past.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 stronger than morphine.

Sergeant Joshua Albrecht, a Patrol Sergeant with the Casper Police Department, told a K2 Radio News reporter that the CPD was assisting "another agency" in executing a search warrant.

Zachary Stott said he was a drug user but not a dealer, and would consume 30 fentanyl pills a day and use methamphetamine sparingly.

Three of the defendants were sentenced for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Last year was a busy one for the Laramie County Sheriff's Office, including its four-legged crime fighters -- K-9 Arie, K-9 Hilde, K-9 Tecca, and K-9 Tyr.

According to the release from the Governor's office, emergency responders are seeing more and more of an increase in fentanyl overdoses around Wyoming, as well as fentanyl seizures by law enforcement officials.