[dropcap]F[/dropcap]entanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid implicated in nearly 29,000 overdose deaths in the United States last year, most likely spread because of heroin and prescription pill shortages, and also because it was cheaper for drug wholesalers than heroin, according to a report on illicit US drug markets by researchers at UC San Francisco. First […]
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Thursday morning, Anchorage police took three persons in separate stolen vehicle cases into custody, all completed before noon. Arrested were 39-year-old Malik T. Newkirk, 39-year-old Charles J. Talsma, and 23-year-old Skylar S. Robbins. All three suspects were remanded to the Anchorage Jail Complex. During the early morning hours of Thursday, at 2:44 am, an […]
U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced the indictment of an Anchorage man on drug charges after a seizure of a massive amount of heroin the suspect received from a California sender. 53-year-old Don Deviet Frye Sr was indicted on charges of “attempted possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and possession of a controlled substance […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nchorage man, Sergio Jauna Devoe, age 28, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and eight years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess for trafficking drugs on Wednesday after previously pleading guilty to the charges, DoJ revealed. The case was initiated after an encounter between Devoe and APD’s Community Action Policing […]