drug bust

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...

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...

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

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...

The search warrant was the result of a months long drug trafficking investigation.