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Owner of Shooter's Billiards in Wasilla implicated in meth bust - KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source |
Owner of Shooter's Billiards in Wasilla implicated in major meth bust
by Channel 2 News staff
Thursday, December 31, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The U.S. Attorney's office on Thursday announced a RECORD SEIZURE of methamphetamine bound for Alaska.
Approximately 23 pounds -- yes, pounds -- of Mexican meth were intercepted on its way to Anchorage.
Four people have been arrested: 51-year-old Ricky Reese of Wasilla, the intended recipient and owner of Shooter's Billiards; 29-year-old Jared Lisenby of Anchorage; 78-year-old Ronald Hall of California; and 54-year-old Debja Steilen of California.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office, the investigation began on March 29 when Drug Enforcement Administration officials seized $12,000 from a pickup truck being sent from Anchorage to Seattle.
The truck had been shipped back and forth from Anchorage and Seattle on numerous occasions and belonged to Hall, who had prior drug trafficking convictions.
Investigators followed the truck through Oregon and into California where they connected it to another vehicle associated with Hall, this one a Ford Explorer registered to Steilen, a traveling companion of Hall's.
Hall made three round trips into Mexico on consecutive days, Dec. 10, 11 and 12. Hall and Steilen then drove the Explorer from California to the Seattle suburb of Fife, where they put the vehicle on a barge bound for Alaska.
DEA agents executed a search warrant and found the meth in a trap door underneath the rear seat.
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Owner of Shooter's Billiards in Wasilla implicated in meth bust - KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source |
Owner of Shooter's Billiards in Wasilla implicated in major meth bust
by Channel 2 News staff
Thursday, December 31, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The U.S. Attorney's office on Thursday announced a RECORD SEIZURE of methamphetamine bound for Alaska.
Approximately 23 pounds -- yes, pounds -- of Mexican meth were intercepted on its way to Anchorage.
Four people have been arrested: 51-year-old Ricky Reese of Wasilla, the intended recipient and owner of Shooter's Billiards; 29-year-old Jared Lisenby of Anchorage; 78-year-old Ronald Hall of California; and 54-year-old Debja Steilen of California.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office, the investigation began on March 29 when Drug Enforcement Administration officials seized $12,000 from a pickup truck being sent from Anchorage to Seattle.
The truck had been shipped back and forth from Anchorage and Seattle on numerous occasions and belonged to Hall, who had prior drug trafficking convictions.
Investigators followed the truck through Oregon and into California where they connected it to another vehicle associated with Hall, this one a Ford Explorer registered to Steilen, a traveling companion of Hall's.
Hall made three round trips into Mexico on consecutive days, Dec. 10, 11 and 12. Hall and Steilen then drove the Explorer from California to the Seattle suburb of Fife, where they put the vehicle on a barge bound for Alaska.
DEA agents executed a search warrant and found the meth in a trap door underneath the rear seat.
more ...
