KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - Police in Ketchikan say they want to arrest a Washington state man suspected of arranging to transport drugs to the city.
The Ketchikan Daily News (https://bit.ly/1fPndxv) reports a $100,000 arrest warrant has been issued for 45-year-old Viet Q. Nguyen (WEN) of Kent.
Police say Nguyen is suspected of sending his brother to Ketchikan on an Alaska ferry carrying a suitcase with nearly a half pound of methamphetamine.
Charging documents say Phong Q. Nguyen was supposed to deliver the suitcase to a man in a hotel room, obtain money for a plane ticket and fly back to Washington.
The man in the hotel room was a police informant. The younger brother was arrested. He said at arraignment Monday he did not know that the suitcase contained drugs.
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Information from: Ketchikan (Alaska) Daily News, https://www.ketchikandailynews.com
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