A Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit Fairbanks Area Narcotics Team (FANT) operation seized over $95,000 worth of illegal drugs from the streets of interior Alaska, this week. On January 25, 2021, Troopers, Officers, and Agents assigned to FANT executed a federal arrest warrant for 54-year-old Fairbanks resident Michael Meath at a residence on Shannon Drive in […]
Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Special Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration have arrested an Anchorage nurse practitioner and a Soldotna doctor on separate federal narcotics charges, which allege that they illegally distributed large amounts of opioids and other powerful narcotics by writing prescriptions for “patients” without medical examinations and lacking […]
An announcement by U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder on Friday revealed that North Pole man 40-year-old Cecil John Zak has been indicted on charges of Possession and Attempted Possession with Intention to Distribute a Controlled Substance after an investigation that included a controlled delivery. The investigation on Zak began on May 19th, when the U.S. […]
U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced on Wednesday the end of the drug investigation and subsequent sentencing of 13 individuals convicted on drug and other charges in Kodiak. The investigation, spurred by the public outrage in the community of Kodiak over the rampant drug dealing and use in 2016, was taken up by the Coast Guard […]