BILLINGS — Law enforcement is raising awareness about a scary drug it says is starting to show up in larger quantities in our area.

Former DEA agent Stacy Zinn says carfentanil is much more deadly than fentanyl: “One little speck could kill you, and that's what makes it dangerous.”

Watch the video report here: Carfentanil seized in Yellowstone County

Zinn worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration from 2001 to 2023, the last five as a resident agent in charge in Billings.

"About 2015 we saw a carfentanil case, liquid carfentanil came into Yellowstone County and unfortunately we did have one overdose, death involved in that,” Zinn said.“But we never found out where the source of that carfentanil.”

The Eastern Montana High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force recently sei

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