An accidental text by a North Pole man to a Alaska State Trooper Drug Investigator on Tuesday resulted in a drug investigation and three arrests according to the trooper dispatch.

The State Drug Enforcement Unit opened an investigation after North Pole man, 31-year-old Logan Alan Martz accidentally texted the wrong number and reached a member of the AST and offered to sell him heroin.

Troopers requested and received a warrant and made a visit to Martz at his residence, contacting him and two others. Martz was arrested on charges of Misconduct Invoving a Controlled Substance II for trying to sell the investigator heroin.

Also at the residence was 25-year-old Nicholas John Axhelm of North Pole. Axhelm had an outstanding arrest warrant on the original January charge of MICS II.

A third person, 29-year-old Matthew Charles Howell, also of North Pole, arrived at the scene during the execution of the search warrant. Howell, who was on conditions of release on a prior drug/weapons charge, was found to be in possession of a small amount of heroin. He was arrested on charges of MICS IV and Violation of Conditions of Release.

During the search of the residence, troopers would find large household appliances that had been stolen from another North Pole residence just days before.

All three men were transported to the Fairbanks Correctional Center and remanded there.

Troopers say the investigation is continuing. 

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