A Stockton drug dealer was sentenced to five years in prison in a case that involved a police dog sniffing fentanyl during a raid and having to be resuscitated with Narcan.
Charles Benavides pleaded guilty to possession of fentanyl for sale, with an enhancement for having more than an ounce of the deadly drug, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office said. In addition, Benavides also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of causing injury to a police dog.
The case illustrates the dangers that police dogs encounter…