Twenty-seven-year-old woman is taken into custody at an Alaskan airport for smuggling opioid drugs.
Annette Dilts, 27, was arrested at the Ketchikan International Airport on Feb. 5, 2021, as part of a joint counter-narcotics operation effort between Alaska State Troopers and local law enforcement agencies. Dilts was accused of smuggling more $250,000-worth of illegal drugs and taken into custody as part of an operation designed to stop the trafficking of drugs into Southeast Alaska. She was ultimately charged with two counts of second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, which is a felony.
During a search of her person, authorities announced Dilts was smuggling approximately 250 grams of black tar heroin and approximately 206 fentanyl pills, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. The total value of the drugs seized was $266,000. The woman was from Prince of Wales Island and brought the pills to the states on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattl
There’s concern about the process City of Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly used to review applicants vying to be the city’s next police chief. During a city council meeting last night, there were public comments critical of a process that screened out some applicants prior to the interview stage. Mayor Matherly explained a step in the process, in which Juneau Police Chief Ed Mercer and consultant Greg Russel screened applications. They reviewed the 18 applications we got. We got 18 of them, and the reviewed every resume for minimum and preferred experience and qualifications.
Matherly said Mercer and Russel selected 10 candidates to be interviewed by a local review committee. The panel ultimately selected 5 finalists for participation in a public forum scheduled for tonight. Although the council was sent a memo about the process on January 25, Council member Valerie Therrien took issue with the mayor’s lack of transparency about the screening process.
Half-pound of black tar heroin, hundreds of pills reportedly seized at Ketchikan International Airport
Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 9, 2021
Alaska State Troopers’ Ketchikan post. (KRBD file photo)
Alaska State Troopers reported Tuesday that authorities had seized a half pound of heroin and more than 200 illicit pills during a Friday bust at Ketchikan International Airport.
Authorities arrested 27-year-old woman from Prince of Wales Island who allegedly brought the contraband in on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle
In a sworn statement filed in court, State Trooper Larry Dur’an said officers were waiting for Annette Arlene Dilts of Hydaburg and served a search warrant. She reportedly had concealed 250 grams of black tar heroin and more than 200 pills marked as oxycodone but suspected of being fentanyl inside a body cavity. Fentanyl is a much more powerful and cheaply-produced opiate drug. The pills have been sent to the Alaska state crime lab to be identified.
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Oshkosh man charged; led police on pursuit, then hours-long standoff
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Vehicle operator flee/elude officer causing damage to property, repeater
Felony bail jumping, repeater (five counts)
Possession of a firearm by a felon, repeater
Failure to comply with officer s attempt to take person into custody, repeater
Hit-and-run - injury, repeater
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According to a news release from the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office and the Juneau Police Department, the incidents that led to the above charges began on Saturday evening, Jan. 30.
Officials say shortly after 8 p.m., the Juneau Police Department initiated a pursuit of an SUV traveling westbound on County W. That pursuit was joined by Dodge County Sheriff’s Office deputies. The fleeing vehicle left the roadway shortly after leaving the City of Juneau and struck a squad car when re-entering the highway. The vehicle fled to the City of Beaver Dam on Highway W and while law enforcem