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Dennis Mendez was wanted on an outstanding warrant as well as multiple counts of Forgery and Identity Theft in Chelan and Douglas Counties.

Detectives believe Wylie Peart was actively selling drugs from a home in the 1100 block of Rosewood Avenue in Wenatchee.

The arraignment of 61-year-old Linhui Yan did not take place this week because of the absence of the judge assigned to the case.

The Columbia River Drug Task Force says Salvador Alvarez-Palominos sold meth twice to a police confidential informant in the first three months of this year.

Chelan County prosecutors brought charges against 61-year-old Linhui Yan in February of last year, but he and his wife were nowhere to be found.

The investigation started in October of last year when deputies say they received information from reliable sources that drugs were being sold out of a home.

Steven E Graham, 38, was arrested last Nov. 29 at a hotel where agents with the Columbia River Drug Task Force

The Columbia River Drug Task Force (CRDTF) saw one of its busiest years for drug busts in Chelan and Douglas Counties last year. In 2023, the CRDTF opened 119 new cases and made 104 total arrests. Chief of Special Operations with the Chelan County Sheriff's Office, Ryan Moody, credits several factors for the uptick in activity...

Steven Irland has pleaded guilty in Douglas County Superior Court to seven felonies, including three counts of second-degree assault.

Chelan County prosecutors filed the charges last February against Yan and his wife after a yearlong investigation into Lin Massage and Angel Spa in Wenatchee.