Yellowstone Times

Monday Morning Stretch with an update! 

Fentanyl has seen a drastic increase in the area in 2022. Per the MT DOJ, there has been more fentanyl seized in the past year than in the previous 3 years combined (2019-2021). In 2019, 1,900 doses of Fentanyl were seized in Montana. In the first half of 2022, 111,611 doses of Fentanyl have been seized in Montana. Fentanyl is considered to be between 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. Due to fentanyl’s potency, it is quickly becoming more prominent in Bozeman’s community. Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is quickly spreading to the point of creating a crisis.

To help prevent that from happening, Officer Peterson and Canine Stretch worked tirelessly to train Stretch to detect the odor of Fentanyl. Canine Stretch is now trained and certified to detect the odor of fentanyl. Stretch is the first Canine in the area, possibly the State of Montana, that has the ability to detect Fentanyl. Police Canines were fortunate to locate Fentanyl in previous seizures due to having another drug (methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine) present to help the Police Canines locate dangerous drug odor. Now, Canine Stretch no longer needs to have other drugs present to detect the odor of fentanyl.

https://dojmt.gov/ag-knudsen-new-data-show-fentanyl-is.../ 

Original source can be found here.