A traffic stop in east Alabama led to the largest seizure of fentanyl in Etowah County.

The traffic stop, which took place Tuesday, yielded more than two pounds of pure fentanyl.

“It takes two milligrams – and this was over 2.2 pounds – of fentanyl to kill a human being,’’ said Sheriff Jonathan Horton.

“There’s enough fentanyl in this package to kill everybody in Etowah County. That’s how deadly this substance is.”

Tostig Denard Moore, 40, of Attalla, is charged with drug trafficking and is being held in the Etowah County Detention Center on a $1 million cash bond.

Horton said Moore has a previous armed robbery conviction. Additionally, he was arrested in 2009 on weapons offenses and currently was out on bond for trafficking methamphetamine.

The sheriff’s Active Criminal Enforcement Unit stopped Moore Tuesday as part of an ongoing interdiction operation targeting drug trafficking.

Deputies Lucas Hallmark and ACE Deputy Summer Doran initiated the traffic violation stop on Highway 431 in the Glenco area.

During the stop, K-9 “TEDI” alerted deputies to the presence of illegal narcotics, leading to a search of the vehicle. Deputies found the kilogram of fentanyl inside in the back seat, packaged with the Louis Vuitton monogram.

“I’m sure it’s not with the permission of Louis Vuitton,‘’ Horton said. ”It should have been marked with the Grim Reaper because that’s what it is.”

“Many substances – marijuana, pills, meth, heroin, heroin- are commonly laced with fentanyl,” Horton said.

Last year alone, the sheriff said, Etowah County deputies deployed Narcan about 40 times. Narcan is a nasal sprayed used to immediately reverse the effects of a life-threatening opioid emergency.

Nearly 75 percent of the overdose deaths in the county, Horton said, included fentanyl in the toxicology reports.

“Fentanyl is a very, very, very deadly substance,’’ Horton said. “Just because someone has a substance abuse problem, whether it be pills or marijuana, or cocaine, they can inadvertently receive fentanyl laced in those drugs that result in their death.”

The Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit responded and took over the investigation. The Rainbow City Police Department, Southside Police Department, and the FBI North Alabama Criminal Enterprise Task Force also assisted.

“That was a great amount of drugs taken off the streets that truly saved no telling how many lives should it have made it to its destination and been laced into other drugs or sold directly as it is,’’ Horton said.