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 […]