Sand Point-based Alaska State Troopers announced this week that they took into custody two men in that community on manslaughter and drug charges following the death of 26-year-old King Cove resident Raylene Kochuten on Sunday. On Saturday, police and Sand Point EMS responded to a residence in that community after receiving a report of an unresponsive male. […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Anchorage woman who smuggled the synthetic opioid fentanyl into the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center as an inmate in October of 2017 was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline in federal court, it was announced by U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroeder in a press release on Wednesday. 37-year-old Dorothy Elizabeth Lantz was sentenced to […]
[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]T[/dropcap]roopers out of Wasilla responded to Riverside Drive on Tuesday after receiving a call reporting a man slumped over and not waking up in a running SUV, AST reports. When they arrived at the scene, troopers managed to gain entry into the vehicle and found the driver, identified as 44-year-old Nicholas Johnson, unconscious and unresponsive. […]