“That was a new one,' said Ketchikan Police Lt. Andy Berntson. 'Looked like big ol’ overstuffed burritos.'
Security guards watch as passenger embark on the ferry Columbia in Ketchikan on Feb. 17, 2023.
“We received some information from down south with some partnering law enforcement agencies that there may be a person traveling to Juneau on the Alaska Marine Highway System that was carrying a large quantity of methamphetamine,” Lt. Krag Crampbell of the Juneau Police Department said in a phone interview Monday. JPD is among more than a dozen agencies contributing to the task force.
There, they found a blue duffel bag. Inside, were 18 packages of meth wrapped in tortillas, said Ketchikan Police Lt. Andy Berntson. While Davis’s journey ended in Ketchikan’s jail, the blue duffel bag continued north on the Columbia, along with what investigators describe in court documents as a “representative sample” of the seized drugs.“Throughout that investigation, we were able to determine that the end goal for that methamphetamine was, it was supposed to go to a person in Juneau, who was supposed to pick it up at the ferry,” Campbell said.
Soon afterward, a silver Nissan pickup pulled up. The driver told the undercover detective to put the bag in the truck, and the two went their separate ways. Shortly after, police stopped and arrested the driver, who they identified as Nanette Brown’s husband, 60-year-old Rodney Brown.They watched as Nanette Brown went to a neighbor’s apartment carrying a multi-colored bag.
Berntson, the Ketchikan lieutenant, says he expects the 20-pound bust to reduce the supply of meth in smaller communities throughout Southeast Alaska. And he says that’s the goal of the regional task force — though drug trafficking is sometimes thought of as a victimless crime, Berntson says that misses the bigger picture.
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