Fentanyl

The Missoula County Attorney’s Office charged 11 new criminal complaints this week.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has joined with every other Attorney General in the country to have Congress permanently classify Fentanyl as a Schedule 1 drug.

Two men, 37 year-old Jacob Alt and 35 year-old David Holcomb were arrested on February 16 by Missoula police after being found with a large amount of illegal drugs, cash and paraphernalia.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has joined nearly all 56 of the nation’s attorneys general to ask Congress to close a loophole that allows fentanyl traffickers to avoid law enforcement. Fox describes the loophole in the statute.

Methamphetamine use, abuse and addiction has dominated the news recently with the dramatic increase in crime, arrests and prosecutions.

The Missoula County Sheriff’s Office utilizes their K-9 officers in many ways, but one of their primary tasks is detecting dangerous drugs, and the work can be dangerous, especially when the dogs inhale harmful substances, like fentanyl.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox's office hosted a training session on Wednesday for law enforcement officers and prosecutors on how to best build a strong investigation and successful prosecution of death cases resulting from overdoses of heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.