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A Moses Lake man is in jail on federal drug charges following his arrest on Sunday. The Moses Lake Police Department says its Street Crimes Unit, which also assists as Task Force Officers for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, served a federal search warrant at the home of 54-year-old Gregory Wilson as part of an ongoing narcotics investigation. ...

Grant County's Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET) releases it's annual report for 2024. The INET report says Grant County saw 34 overdose deaths in 2024. INET says 14 of those deaths came from Fentanyl, while 13 came from Methamphetamine and seven came from a combination of alcohol, cocaine, benzo's and other opioids...

This story is almost like something you would see in a Showtime show like 'Weeds.'

A Mexican national who supervised a drug trafficking organization operating in Oroville, Washington received his sentencing today. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office - Eastern District of Washington, 35-year-old Erubey Arciga Medrano of Michoacan, Mexico, receives 15 years in prison on drug trafficking charges...

Chelan-Douglas Health District (CDHD) urgently warns the community about fentanyl contamination in the local methamphetamine supply. "We recognize that fentanyl overdoses are devastating families across our community," says Health Administrator Dr...

A 32-year-old Quincy man makes his initial court appearance today for an alleged controlled substance homicide. According to a Grant County Sherrif's Office press release, Yakima County's Law Enforcement Against Drugs task force arrested Abraham Cristobal Flores Velazquez Thursday...

A former Cle Elum resident has pled not guilty to ten felony drug charges. The Ellensburg Daily Record reports 40-year-old Jeffrey Allan Wunder entered the plea to charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, unlawful use of a building for drug purposes, and the manufacture of a controlled substance in Kittitas County Superior Court last week...

The Moses Lake Police Department is continuing its efforts to combat the current fentanyl epidemic. Last weekend, officers arrested 38-year-old Juan J. Gonsalez after he was reportedly witnessed selling fentanyl to several people in Civic Center Park near city hall...

With nearly three weeks still remaining in 2024, Chelan and Douglas Counties have already set a dubious new benchmark for drug overdose deaths. According to blended statistics provided by Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris and Douglas County Coroner Tanner Bateman, there have been 36 fatal drug overdose incidents in the two-county area so far this year, including a sobering eight during a recent e

Columbia River Drug Task Force seizes fentanyl, methethamphetamine and firearms in takedown of multi-county drug network.