ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal jury convicted an Anchorage man yesterday for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy targeting Alaska. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, James Barber, 44, conspired with the organization’s leader, Aaron Washington, 59, and multiple other people, who have already pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, to […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Following a five-day trial, a federal jury convicted a Washington man Wednesday of distributing fentanyl pills that resulted in the overdose death of two men in Skagway. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between Jan. 1 to 13, 2023, Jacob Cotton, 34, of Spokane, Washington, agreed to sell […]
The defendant is one of over 60 charged in large-scale drug trafficking ring targeting Alaska. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Wednesday to over 13 years in prison for conspiring with others to traffic fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin in Alaska on behalf of a drug trafficking organization allegedly run by […]
38 kilograms of fentanyl and 10 kilograms of heroin seized in connection with the organization. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for leading a local drug trafficking organization responsible for attempting to traffic large amounts of fentanyl and heroin to Alaska from the Lower 48. According […]