Yavapai County law enforcement officers seized several pounds of methamphetamine and fentanyl pills Tuesday night during a recent traffic outage on Interstate 17 near Cordes Lake. When agents approached the car, the driver, Ryan Ellman, 33, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was showing nervous physical signs. When asked about his erratic driving, he said he had “fallen asleep”. Did. Upon examining the vehicle for possible causes, the agent found in the trunk that he had 53 pounds of stimulants and 36 pounds of multicolored he m-30 fentanyl tablets (120,000). I found a large duffel bag. Agents also found five kilograms of cocaine, personal heroin, meth, cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and three firearms found in the front and back seats of the vehicle. Ellman was arrested and imprisoned in Yavapai County Jail on his two charges of transporting drugs for sale, transporting dangerous drugs for sale, and possession of drug paraphernalia.