BIG RIGS – Max Bennett, 2, checks out the steering on a steamroller during the 3 to 5 Preschool’s Big Rig fundraiser in front of Mt. Edgecumbe High School Saturday. Hundreds of kids and parents braved the wet weather to check out the assortment of machines, including road building trucks, a U.S. Coast Guard ANT boat, police cars and fire department rigs. Kids were able to ride as passengers on ATVs. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Drug-Laden Truck, Suspects Held Here
By Sentinel Staff
Two men were indicted by a Sitka grand jury Thursday on felony charges alleging they possessed methamphetamine and heroin with intent to sell.
Richard S. Lake, 52, of Chehalis, Wash., and Richard S. Discher, 54, of Westport, Wash., are being held in the Sitka jail on $50,000 bail. Lake has been in custody since Sept. 18, and Discher was taken into police custody on Friday, police said.
The grand jury charged the men with two counts each of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree, a class B felony. They are also charged with two misdemeanor counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree, in the information adding misdemeanor counts to the indictment.
The criminal complaint said that police were contacted Sept. 15 by the Coast Guard investigative service in Seattle about a tip they had received that Discher was trying to send up to one pound of heroin to Sitka in a Chevrolet pickup on a barge from Washingson state.
The barge arrived last Monday. Police saw the suspect vehicle offloaded at AML, and an Astro van with three men, including Discher and Lake, arriving from town. Police said Discher got out of the van and took custody of the pickup. Police stopped Discher, and Alaska State Troopers investigator Larry Duran used a drug-sniffing dog on the suspect vehicle “in which it indicated to the presence of the controlled substances.”
Discher was detained, and “a search of his person revealed approximately 2.5 grams of methamphetamine.” A traffic stop was also initiated on the Astro van, and the two men in the van were detained.
Police said the search of the truck showed 132 grams of heroin and 107 grams of methamphetamine concealed in the air filter under the hood; smaller amounts of heroin and meth, packaging materials and paraphernalia indicating meth and heroin were found in various containers within the vehicle, police said.
Police said the various items were labeled with the identity of Lake and Discher, and Lake admitted to knowing the vehicle contained controlled substances.
The criminal complaint said Lake had over $10,000 in cash on his person.
Police said the large quantity indicates the drugs were intended for sale. Police estimated the street value of the heroin sized at $132,000; and the meth at $21,400.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Responding to the requests of athletes, coaches and parents, the Sitka School Board voted unanimously Monday against a proposal that would have changed Sitka High School’s classification from Class 4A, which includes Juneau and Ketchikan, to the 3A, which has schools with enrollment of 100 to 400 students.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
Memories of Sitka’s first radio station have been revived by a St. Louis, Mo., man who was one of the founders. Fred A. Wiethuchter recently wrote a letter to “Mayor Sitka, Alaska” asking about the town since he was here during World War II. He was an Army private at Fort Ray when he was attached to Armed Services Radio Station KRAY and WVCX ....
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