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Federal Tipoffs Involving Alaska Newsletter for Sunday September 08, 2024 ( 2 items )  

DEA-Seattle: 'Drug Kingpin' Gets 28 Years for Trafficking Drugs From Mexico to Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Seattle Division issued the following news release: The leader of an extensive transnational drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 28 years in prison for running a conspiracy that trafficked vast amounts of dangerous drugs to Alaska. According to court documents, Miguel Baez Guevara, a.k.a. "Javi," 41, a U.S. citizen who was living in Mexico, was the leader of a transnational criminal drug tr  more

EPA Announces $78M in Grants to Tribes in Alaska, Pacific Northwest to Cut Climate Pollution, Accelerate Clean Energy Transition
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: SEATTLE - Today, Sep. 5, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that eight Tribes in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington were selected to receive $78,441,385 in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda. EPA selected 34 applications in total to fund projects nationwide to implement community-driven solutions to tackle the c  more