Utah man charged after officers allegedly find him in possession of fentanyl, meth

POCATELLO — A man from whom constabulary opportunity they seized astir 1,000 fentanyl pills on pinch different narcotics faces aggregate charges.

Carey Wayne Parker, 42, has been charged pinch felonies for possession of fentanyl pinch nan intent to present and possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanors for possession of Suboxone — a medicine opioid — and possession of supplier paraphernalia, tribunal records show.

Pocatello constabulary officers conducted a postulation extremity connected a achromatic Honda Accord astir 2:45 p.m. May 2, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Officers identified nan driver arsenic Parker, and learned his Utah driver’s licence was suspended. During nan stop, a narcotics K9 performed an open-air sniff adjacent nan car and indicated to nan beingness of narcotics wrong it.

Following nan indication, officers performed a pat-down hunt of Parker and recovered him successful possession of 2 zip-top baggies containing 185 fentanyl pills, nan affidavit says. Officers besides recovered a vial of suspected meth, Suboxone sublingual films and a portion of burned foil nan officers identified arsenic a fentanyl smoking device.

Parker allegedly told officers nan supplier belonged to him. He past invoked his Fifth Amendment correct to stay silent and was not asked immoderate further questions.

Officers learned Parker was staying astatine a motel room successful Pocatello and served a hunt warrant astatine nan room. Inside, they recovered “additional fentanyl pills, a mini magnitude of methamphetamine and astir 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.

Parker was arrested and booked into Bannock County Jail, wherever he is presently being held.

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

If he is recovered guilty, Parker would look up to life successful prison.

He is scheduled to look successful tribunal for a preliminary proceeding earlier Magistrate Judge Aaron Thompson Wednesday.