A Saturday evening traffic stop for speeding turned into a drug bust for Fairbanks-based troopers according to a Monday trooper dispatch. Troopers pulled over a northbound vehicle on the Parks Highway at 6:11 pm on Monday evening and contacted the driver, who was found to be on Federal probation and a search of the vehicle was […]
SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more than 14 tons of cocaine Thursday, at San Diego’s Broadway Pier. The drugs were seized in the Eastern Pacific Ocean drug transit zone off the coast of Central and South America. The haul represented 13 vessel interdictions and one bale recovery between late January and early […]
In the first indictment in the state that alleges the presence of a nationally recognized street gang, a 25-count indictment was unsealed, alleging 12 defendants of a local gang “engaged in drug trafficking, firearms possession, and Money Laundering,” the Justice Department reported. That local Fairview gang, “Fairview MOB,” is alleged to be affiliated with the Campanella […]
Kodiak man, 55-year-old DuWayne LeDoux, was sentenced in the Eastern California District Court in Sacramento to seven years in prison for “possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to structure cash deposits,” United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced in a Department of Justice press release on Thursday. In a plea agreement in October, […]