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 […]
A Wasilla couple was arrested on drug charges after a search warrant was served on their residence in Wasilla on Saturday by Palmer-based Patrol Troopers and SDEU-Mat-Su. A third suspect was arrested in the driveway of the home. The Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit and troopers would discover heroin and methamphetamines packaged for sale, digital scales, […]
It was announced by the Department of Justice on Monday that Wasilla man, 38-year-old James Gwaltney has been sentenced to seven years in prison for heroin trafficking. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Sharon Gleason. In a plea agreement, Gwaltney admitted to conspiring to distribute more than 1.6 kilos of heroin throughout […]
An investigation by Mat-Su Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit and the Special Crimes Investigation Unit in Anchorage led to the arrest of an Anchorage woman allegedly on her way to the Goose Creek Correctional Center with a large quantity of drugs on Wednesday. With information from their investigation, Drug Enforcement and Special Crimes units, identified 25-year-old Gwendoline Maka […]