The FBI is seeking additional information. According to public court documents, Craig Scott Valdez, 36, used the popular social media application Snapchat to identify, groom and entice juvenile females in Alaska for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The indictment charges this conduct in relation to one minor victim from an incident occurring in October […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man currently serving a 20-year term of incarceration was sentenced yesterday to an additional 20 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization that was responsible for trafficking over eight kilograms of dangerous drugs in Alaska. According to court documents, from April to December 2023, Rodney Godwin, 51, organized […]
The ATF is seeking more information FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging a Fairbanks man with illegally trafficking firearms, distributing cocaine, and with carrying a machinegun during a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents, from September 2024 to August 2025, Mason Lanon, 22, willfully engaged […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal jury convicted an Anchorage woman last week for her role in a local drug trafficking conspiracy to traffic cocaine, cocaine base, methamphetamine, and heroin. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Erica Elisoff, 51, and her boyfriend and co-defendant, Larry Kennedy, 65, were selling drugs out of adjacent […]