A pair of Anchorage brothers were sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking after they attempted to set up women that had accompanied them on a drive to Fairbanks, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska said in a statement Wednesday.
Dwayne Dollison Jr., 37, and Kenneth Martin Douglas, 35, were sentenced to 15 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason on Nov. 6 for drug trafficking conspiracy that involved two handguns, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In September 2017, an Alaska State Trooper stopped two vehicles — Douglas and Dollison in a vehicle owned by Douglas and “their female companions” in a car rented by the two men — for speeding on the Parks Highway close to Fairbanks, said the statement.
According to U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder’s statement, troopers received a search warrant for the rental car after they found “a small amount of heroin in the passenger compartment" of the vehicle. Troopers searched the rental car’s trunk and discovered about 154 grams of cocaine, 44 grams of crack, 27 grams of methamphetamine, 12 grams of heroin and two 9 mm handguns “in or around duffel bags,” the statement said.
The guns — one of which was stolen in Wasilla — and duffel bags were later connected to the brothers by fingerprints and DNA, said the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
An investigation following the traffic stop concluded that the brothers had planned to traffic the drugs in such a way that their female companions would be charged if the caravan was stopped on their trip to Fairbanks, the statement said.
According to the statement, the brothers were released from federal prison in 2015 after being convicted of trafficking drugs together in 2009.
This is the third drug trafficking conviction for Douglas and the second conviction for Dollison, who received an additional sentence of 7 months in prison for violating conditions of his release in an earlier drug trafficking offense, according to the statement.