Crime & Justice

Fairbanks troopers arrest 4 in cocaine, heroin bust

Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers made four arrests and seized cocaine and heroin in two separate cases last week.

Troopers announced the arrests of 22-year-old Fairbanks man Donald Troy Nelson, Oregon residents David Adam Casanova, 34, and Ashley Kristine Service, 31, and 26-year-old Xavier Thompson Bido of Puerto Rico in a dispatch Monday.

In the first case, reported to members of the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit on Friday morning, staff at a shipping company reported "what they believed to be heroin being shipped from Oregon to a Fairbanks address."

"The suspected heroin tested positive and had an aggregate weight of 19.5 grams (195 individual doses)," troopers wrote. "SDEU along with AST Patrol contacted the recipient of the package after it had been delivered to the address."

Members of the enforcement unit obtained search warrants for the residence on the address, seizing the heroin package — with a street value of about $9,000 — and arresting Nelson, Casanova and Service.

The second case resulted from a traffic stop at about 6 p.m. Saturday on the Parks Highway. Troopers said Bido was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by a trooper for speeding as it headed north.

"The driver was found to be on federal probation and a search of the vehicle was conducted," troopers wrote. "During the search, 1.6 pounds of uncut cocaine was located at the feet of (Bido)."

All four defendants were held at the Fairbanks Correctional Center on charges of misconduct involving controlled substances.

Chris Klint

Chris Klint is a former ADN reporter who covered breaking news.

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