drug bust

A federal jury finds an Indian National guilty of possession with intent to distribute more than 170 pounds of MDMA in Eastern Washington. The jury handed down the guilty verdict to 31-year-old Jaskaran Singh, a native of Gujarat, India. MDMA is also known as "Ecstacy," or "Molly...

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...

Local police apprehend wanted suspect in East Wenatchee with significant drug and firearm haul.

Two Grant County parents are in jail after police say they endangered their children by placing them in close proximity to a controlled substance. The Moses Lake Police Department says 41-year-old Samuel Cantu and 33-year-old Nicole Ortega were arrested during the service of a search warrant at their residence in the 2600 block of Wall Street in Moses Lake this week...

Two Columbia Basin men are in jail after police say they were found in possession of illegal narcotics. The Adams County Sheriff's Office says it began when 57-year-old Dennis Riojas of Othello was pulled over for a traffic stop and arrested after he was discovered with fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana, as well as a stolen firearm deputies say he attempted to discard prior to being stopped

After only less-than-two weeks on patrol, the East Wenatchee Police Department's new K9 unit is already reporting a marked impact on crime. The Department's new duo of K9 Maverick, a three-year-old German Shepherd, and Officer Jordan Conley hit the streets on Sept...

As many as eight people are behind bars after police raided two illegal marijuana grow sites in Grant County last last week. The busts happened Thursday (Aug. 1) when about 40 law enforcement officers served search warrants on the two connected sites near Road C Northeast and Road 11 Northeast just south of Ephrata...

Two Oregon men are behind bars after police say they were caught trying to smuggle over three pounds of illegal drugs into The Gorge Amphitheater Campground during a concert event last weekend. Security screeners at the venue discovered scales, baggies, and a substance believed to be cocaine inside the suspects' vehicle when they tried entering the Campground...

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