The ATF is seeking more information FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging a Fairbanks man with illegally trafficking firearms, distributing cocaine, and with carrying a machinegun during a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents, from September 2024 to August 2025, Mason Lanon, 22, willfully engaged […]
The defendant was arrested and deported to the U.S. in 2021. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The leader of an extensive transnational drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Wednesday for running a conspiracy that trafficked vast amounts of dangerous drugs to Alaska. According to court documents, Miguel Baez Guevara, a.k.a. “Javi,” 41, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison and four years’ supervised release for possessing firearms as a felon and possessing drugs with an intent to distribute them. According to court documents, on Jan. 28, 2021, law enforcement found Joseph Franks, 42, asleep in a running tow truck along […]
(Kodiak, AK) – Thursday, a Kodiak jury convicted William Heckt of Kodiak of one count of Assault in the First Degree and one count of Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the Fifth Degree. The jury acquitted the defendant of Assault in the Second Degree and Violating Conditions of Release. On Feb. 25, 2021, the […]