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 […]
The Alaska State Trooper Dispatch reported on Monday that a drug dealer, arrested bringing in Heroin and Meth into the Community in 2012, was sentenced to 12 years on charges on Friday in Anchorage court. 23-year-old Enrique Lino of New Mexico was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his conviction on charges of Misconduct […]
Alaska State Troopers report that an investigation initiated in September in cooperation with ATF resulted in several sizable heroin busts in the last three months. The investigation also culminated in two indictments for distribution and conspiracy. Within a month of the onset of the investigation, troopers seized 48 grams of heroin it, as reported in the trooper dispatch. […]