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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.

Deputies say Gabreal A. Easterly used a metal rod to break into the office at 105 Beebe Bridge Rd.

Officers say Jairamie Sundance Bolerjack met up with the 46-year-old woman at the Red Lion Inn in Wenatchee, where he sold her drugs on Friday, Jan. 5.

Jail director Chris Sharp says the decision was made to give inmates fingertip access to Narcan after a near death experience.

Gambit is paying off in his first month since receiving certification. In October, Lewis says Gambit recorded six drug finds at the CCRJ including fentanyl. He is certified on the same six odors as K9 Kait; methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, buprenorphine which is also known as suboxone and fentanyl.

County director of facilities and maintenance Brian Travis says a major overhaul is needed to the Law and Justice building.

Chelan County commissioners continue raising concerns about how federal health care laws are burdening the county's residents. Commissioner Kevin Overbay says one of the biggest problems rests with the laws that govern Medicaid. "Right now, if someone's booked into the jail just for being accused of a crime they lose their Medicaid coverage after the first thirty days in Washington State... R

Employees at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center are mourning the loss of one of their corrections deputies. Twenty-three-year-old Jesus Olivera was killed in motorcycle accident near Leavenworth last weekend. Jail director Chris Sharp says Olivera, who had just celebrated his one-year anniversary at the justice center, will be remembered fondly...

Kait is a seven-year-old border collie who has two medical issues, a vitamin B12 deficiency and a fluid buildup up in her abdomen.

A corrections officer who was the target of a vicious assault at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center last month has returned to work. Jesus Olivera was attacked by two inmates at the jail, 24-year-old Benito Licea of Wenatchee and 28-year-old Javier Valdez of East Wenatchee, on May 1...