Two Kodiak teenagers were arrested Friday after police found them with an array of contraband including LSD, methamphetamine, a "psilocybin mushroom grow operation," and a stolen handgun, Alaska State Troopers said.
On Thursday, troopers pulled over 18-year-old Kodiak resident Dakota Benton on Mill Bay Road for driving without a property displayed license plate, the AST said in an online dispatch Sunday. Benton was cited for not having vehicle insurance, and was found to be in possession of marijuana within 500 feet of Kodiak Middle School, troopers said. They then applied for a search warrant for Benton's car.
"Further investigation revealed the vehicle contained over 17 grams (about half an ounce) of marijuana, LSD, methamphetamine, Xanax pills, a safe, $238.00 in currency and drug paraphernalia indicative of the sale and trafficking of illegal narcotics," the trooper dispatch said.
On Friday, troopers applied for and received search warrants for two homes in Kodiak.
Troopers, along with Alaska Wildlife Troopers and the Kodiak Police Department, "conducted a multi-agency operation while serving the search warrants," according to the dispatch.
The involvement of three agencies was "a precaution to safely serve search warrants in two different locations due to the potentially unstable behavior associated with subjects involved in a drug investigation," wrote AST spokeswoman Beth Ipsen.
At one of the homes, Kodiak police found Dakota Benton with a 17-year-old, who was allegedly in possession of a stolen handgun, a "psilocybin mushroom grow," a small amount of marijuana, alcohol, a safe, $651 and "drug paraphernalia indicative of the sale and trafficking of narcotics."
Both were arrested.
Benton was charged with drug misconduct in the third, fourth and fifth degree and being a minor possession of alcohol. The 17-year-old was arrested on charges of second-degree theft, drug misconduct in the fifth and sixth degree and being a minor in possession of alcohol.