Authorities in Whittier arrested two men after one of the men disembarked from the M/V Kennicott and the other arrived to pick him up with a backpack stuffed with 33 pounds of methamphetamine on Friday. Federal documents filed with the Alaska District Attorney’s office showed that Eric James Hansen boarded the Kennicott in Bellingham and […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – For the first time, the Department of Public Safety has developed a dashboard to inform the public on efforts the Alaska State Troopers are taking to stop drug trafficking in the state. Available data includes total seizures made by the Alaska State Troopers’ Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) by month for the […]
Following the decision and directive by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against 32-year-old John Pearl Smith II of Palmer for the murders of Ben Gross and Crystal Denardi. According to the press release issued […]
Since 1975, Colorado State University social scientists have studied rates of drug and alcohol use among American Indian youths living on or near reservations. Their latest published results underscore a trend that has persisted over many decades: Native adolescents are more likely to use alcohol and illicit drugs than non-Native adolescents in the United States. […]