INFORMATION RELEASE

On 01/19/2023, members of the Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs (SEACAD) task force, located a suspicious parcel being shipped to Juneau in the mail. A search warrant was obtained for the package and inside were 86 grams of methamphetamine and 1000 pills, believed to contain fentanyl. The pills were round, blue, and imprinted with the markings M/30.

On 01/20/2023, SEACAD delivered the package to its intended destination, a residence in the 4200 block of Ptarmigan Street. When SEACAD served a search warrant on the residence, 46-year-old Juneau resident Anthony Lynn Byford, fled from the area on foot. Byford was detained by police and it was determined that he opened the delivered package. During a search of the residence, SEACAD found additional controlled substances and a pistol.

Byford was placed under arrest and taken to the Lemon Creek Correction Center on the following charges;

• Attempted misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree, a class B felony offense.
• Attempted misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree, a class C felony offense.

The seized narcotics have an estimated street value of approximately $49,000.

SEACAD, Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs, is a regional task force comprised of municipal police departments from Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Haines, Skagway, Petersburg, Hoonah, Wrangel, Craig and Yakutat, the Alaska State Troopers, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Postal Inspection Service, and Coast Guard Investigative Service. Together, they work to investigate drug importation and distribution in the Southeast Alaska region.