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 […]
(KETCHIKAN, Alaska) – On June 22, 2016, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office indicted Jason Alto, 20 of Egegik, on federal drug charges based on an Alaska State Trooper drug case. A few weeks prior to the indictment, on May 30, 2016, two Alaska State Troopers contacted Alto when he arrived into Ketchikan from Bellingham, WA, […]
The United States Department of Justice is crediting the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service and the Alaska State Troopers Drug Unit for the investigation that led to drug charges against an Egigik man after he was detained on the Kennicott on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Karen L Loeffler announced. According to the Wednesday press release […]