SAN DIEGO — U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy crews offloaded more than 5,100 pounds of seized cocaine Friday, worth nearly $70 million wholesale, in San Diego following a 49-day counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific aboard Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Edmonton with an embedded U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. The cocaine […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] 25-year-old Ketchikan woman took Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers on a high-speed car chase early Thursday morning along the South Tongass Highway, troopers report. Troopers attempted to carry out a traffic stop on a green 1998 GMC Jimmy at mile tow of the southeast highway at just after midnight, but the driver, identified as Rhiana Sanford, […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Mitchell Zong, 45, a former Anchorage resident, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 30 months in federal prison, and to pay a fine of $10,000, for conspiracy to commit money laundering with his father, Kenneth Zong. As determined […]
Inbound and outbound traffic was diverted to the South Birchwood Offramps following a fatal crash involving three vehicles on the Glenn Highway on Tuesday afternoon. APD patrol officers and medics responded to the fatal crash scene at 4:07 pm on Tuesday following an accident on slippery roads north of Anchorage. One person was declared deceased soon […]