The Department of Justice revealed on Friday that a Palmer couple was sentenced by U. S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason for their part in an extensive conspiracy to bring in heroin and Methamphetamine to Alaska from Seattle and distribute the drugs in the Mat-Su area. 41-year-old Tod J. Rodolph and 36-year-old Jessica E. Hopkins previously […]
Two Anchorage men, identified as Maurice Abad Malabed, aka “Moe,” 47, and David Patrick Christensen, 29, both of Anchorage, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on drug trafficking charges, it was reported by the Justice Department on Thursday. According to the DOJ report, Malabed and Christiansen, were attempting to import at least 50 […]
U.S. drug agents have arrested more than 90 people and seized 16 underground labs in a 20-state operation targeting illegal steroids. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Operation Cyber Juice involved more than 30 investigations and netted 636 kilos of steroid powder, 8,200 liters of raw steroid injectable liquid, and more than $2 million in currency and […]
With alcohol and drug abuse being an enormous problem among Alaska Natives, Senator Lisa Murkowski Wednesday took the opportunity of a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) hearing to press for answers about how effectively federal government agencies are collaborating to crack down and counter the flow of illegal substances. Murkowski recounted a recent meeting […]
Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics teams from Nome, Anchorage and Kotzebue, as well as DEA, Alaska State Troopers and a Nome police K-9 Unit, carried out a series of raids and buys on Wednesday in Nome, the trooper dispatch reports. According to the trooper report, authorities carried out two buy/bust operations in Nome as well […]
In an announcement on Monday, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler stated that convicted drug trafficker, 51-year-old Dwight Williams had been sentenced in U.S. District Court for his part in a methamphetamine and heroin distribution conspiracy that led to the death of a young Anchorage woman. Williams went before District Court Judge Timothy Burgess, where he received a sentence of […]