Second man charged with fentanyl delivery following Pocatello traffic stop

POCATELLO — Second man charged aft constabulary prehend astir 1,000 fentanyl pills pursuing postulation stop.

David Erik Traversa, 31, has been charged pinch felonies for possession of methamphetamine and possession of fentanyl pinch intent to deliver, tribunal records show. He besides faces misdemeanor charges for possession of Xanax and possession of supplier paraphernalia.

Pocatello constabulary officers conducted a postulation extremity connected a Honda Accord pinch Utah plates astir 2:45 p.m. May 2, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Officers identified nan driver arsenic 42-year-old Carey Wayne Parker and learned his Utah driver’s licence was suspended.

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A narcotics K9 was allowed to execute an open-air sniff astir nan car and indicated nan beingness of narcotics wrong nan car.

With probable cause, officers searched nan conveyance and recovered astir 200 fentanyl pills, on pinch meth, Suboxone and a portion of foil officers believed had been utilized to fume fentanyl.

Parker was arrested and taken to Bannock County Jail.

Officers later searched a motel room Parker was renting and recovered further fentanyl and meth, on pinch 20 Xanax bars.

In total, officers seized 961 suspected fentanyl pills. Those pills and each different suspected narcotics were sent to nan Idaho State Police Forensics Lab for testing.

Charges were revenge against Traversa connected May 16.

Both men are being held astatine Bannock County Jail connected bonds of $75,000 apiece.

If recovered guilty, Traversa could look up to life successful prison.

He is scheduled to look successful tribunal for a preliminary proceeding earlier Magistrate Judge David Hooste connected May 29.

Though Traversa has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until proven guilty.