ASTORIA, Ore. — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alert returned home Saturday following a 50-day counterdrug patrol to the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The 75-member crew aboard Alert conducted multiple law enforcement boardings in international waters off the coasts of Central and South America. The cutter interdicted a suspected smuggling vessel and seized approximately 1,300 pounds of […]
Inmate, 31-year-old Joshua Jacob Reed, a four-time felon with 14 prior convictions, was sentenced on Thursday in federal court on his conviction of attempting to smuggle drugs into the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility in Palmer in February 2017. Reed was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison. That sentence will be served following the completion of a current […]
Four Anchorage individuals were indicted for “attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections Anchorage Correctional Complex” after hatching an elaborate scheme to smuggle drugs into the jail the Department of Justice revealed on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that inmate 32-year-old Steven Cao along with Brandon Beltz, age […]
The two leaders of the Bali Nine, who were convicted and sentenced to death in 2006, faced a firing squad shortly after midnight on the penitentiary island of Nusakambangan in Java. Two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, joined six other drug offenders in front of a 12-man firing squad in a jungle […]