drug bust

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...

Two people are behind bars after police say they were found in possession of narcotics during a traffic stop in Grant County on Tuesday. Officers with the Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee Police Departments pulled over a vehicle near the intersection of State Route 174 and Grand Coulee Avenue in Grand Coulee and discovered 833 fentanyl tablets, as well as fentanyl powder, heroin, crystal methamphetamin

A Moses Lake man is in jail on drug charges following a traffic stop. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says 46-year-old Bryan Bickel was pulled over inside the Moses Lake city limits last Thursday (Jan. 18). When deputies obtained a warrant to search Bickel's vehicle, they discovered crystal methamphetamine and cocaine, along with numerous unused baggies commonly used in the drug trade for packag

An Othello man will serve over six years in prison after being convicted on drug dealing charges. Fifty-two-year-old Jaime Alberta Garza was sentenced to 78 months to be followed by five years of supervised release by Judge Thomas O. Rice in Spokane's U...

An Okanogan County man is in jail after a routine traffic stop turned up a wealth of narcotics. The 47-year-old, whose name is being withheld at the request of the Washington State Patrol (WSP), was pulled over for a license plate violation just off U...

Two men are in police custody following a drug bust in Wenatchee late last month. Agents with the Columbia River Drug Task Force arrested 38-year-old Steven E. Graham at a downtown hotel on Nov. 29 after a lengthy surveillance operation. Sgt...

Two people are in jail after being found in possession of illegal drugs in Grant County. Forty-four-year-old Jonathan Atabelo and 26-year-old Yasmine Stevens were arrested following a traffic stop on Interstate-90 about seven miles west of Moses Lake last Wednesday (Nov...

A Grant County man is in jail after police discovered drugs and evidence of an illegal cockfighting operation at his residence in Royal City on Wednesday morning. After a months-long investigation, agents with the Grant County Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET) made the bust after serving a search warrant in the 16000 block of Road C Southeast at around 7 a...

A man is in jail after what police in Kittitas County are calling one of the largest drug busts they've had in recent memory on Tuesday morning. The incident began when a deputy from the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office noticed a pickup truck parked in a handicap space at a mini mart in the 1300 block of Dolarway Road in Ellensburg without a disabled parking placard...

A man is in jail and his one-year-old child is recovering after suffering a drug overdose in Wenatchee on Tuesday night. Capt. Edgar Reinfeld with the Wenatchee Police Department says officers and paramedics were dispatched to a residence in the 1100 block of Jefferson Street after receiving a call about a young child who was in distress...