During a traffic stop, a police canine conducted an open-air sniff around the vehicle belonging to "Dealer" and alerted to the odor of controlled substances.
Itzen cited numbers as high as 12lbs of meth and over 3,000 fentanyl pills along with over $30,000 in cash and over a dozen guns collectively attributed to the circle of defendants during the presentencing investigation.
Opioids in general are more likely to cause overdose deaths than other drugs such as meth and cocaine, and because fentanyl is so powerful it poses an especially high risk.