A 46-year-old Denver, Colorado man is facing five to 40 years in federal prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in Wyoming.
The case started on Dec. 3 when a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper attempted to pull over a pickup speeding southbound on Interstate 25 in Laramie County.
The $1.2 billion proposal is a potential breakthrough in a stalemate over how to deal with a rising problem that pitted Western states against one another.