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11 pounds of heroin off of streets Two men arrested in August were indicted on multiple crimes for a drug-trafficking ring operated out of Marysville. By Diana Hefley
It was bundled into eight separate packages and worth about $180,000 wholesale. It would have netted much more once it was repackaged and sold off. On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Seattle indicted two men on multiple crimes for
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MARYSVILLE — The 11 pounds of heroin stashed away in a black duffle bag in the backseat of a pickup truck was headed for the streets of Snohomish County.
a drug-trafficking ring operating out of Marysville. The men were arrested in August after they allegedly sold heroin to an informant working with police. The informant reported back to detectives that Socorro Alejandres-Alvarez offered to sell him up to 50 kilograms, or 110 pounds, of heroin at a price of $1.8 million, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul
wrote in court papers. Alejandres-Alvarez, 25, initially was charged in Snohomish County Superior Court following an investigation by Homeland Security and the Snohomish Regional Drug and Gang Task Force. The state charge was dismissed earlier this month when the case was turned over to federal prosecutors.
A U.S. District Court grand jury indicted Alejandres-Alvarez, a Mexican national, with drug and weapons charges. A second man, Juan Carlos Ortiz-Ramos, also was indicted. The men were being detained pending trial. Alejandres-Alvarez has been deported back to Mexico at least twice, according to court records. See HEROIN, Page A8
At long last, tanker flies
App tracks school buses
Boeing must deliver 18 combat-ready KC-46s by August 2017
The technology in use by the Everett School District is meant to help students and parents know if a bus is running behind. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
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EVERETT — After months of delay and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns, a military version of the Boeing Co. aerial-refueling tanker flew for the first time Friday. The first KC-46A, which is derived from the Boeing 767, took off from Paine Field at 1:24 p.m. and landed almost exactly four hours later at Boeing Field in Seattle. A cheer went up from a crowd of several dozen standing near the runway at Paine Field and others on the nearby Strato Deck at the Future of Flight Aviation Center. “It’s great to see it take off,” said Robert Hicks, 60, of Lake Stevens. “There was no doubt it was going to take off. It’s a good plane and the Air Force is going
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to love it.” Hicks came out to see the first flight because he spent the past several years on the tanker program until he retired from Boeing in March. The KC-46, dubbed the Pegasus, was originally supposed to fly in late 2014. An interim model, a 767-2C, has been undergoing flight tests. Boeing is obligated to deliver to the U.S. Air Force 18 combatready tankers by August 2017. The Air Force plans to order a total of 179 tankers to be delivered by 2027, a contract worth an estimated $48.9 billion. The airplanes will replace the oldest KC-135 Stratotankers, which entered service in 1957. The latest overrun was $536 million after taxes and was the result of problems recently discovered with the tanker’s integrated fuel system. It
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pushed the total cost overrun to $1.26 billion above Boeing’s $4.9 billion fixed-price contract. Although flight testing is behind schedule, the company has begun low-rate production on the Everett 767 line. With the first flight finished, Boeing crews now will conduct a post-flight inspection before the next series of flights, during which the tanker boom will be deployed. Before the end of the year, the company expects the KC-46 will begin conducting aerial refueling flights with a number of Air Force jets. But that testing couldn’t take place until Friday’s first flight. The KC-46A was expected to take off in the morning and the all-gray plane rolled onto a taxiway shortly before 10 a.m. But low visibility left the plane sitting idle until the early afternoon.
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Aviation enthusiast Ron Deguzman, 44, traveled from San Diego for the KC-46A’s first flight. He came out to Paine Field on Thursday to see the Chinese presidential plane take off, bound for Washington, D.C., and then returned Friday. “It’s history in the making,” Deguzman said. Retired Boeing flightline manager Hong Chau, 60, came from Wichita, Kansas, to witness the first flight. He worked on and off at Paine Field during his career and heard that the KC-46A was flying Friday. So he decided to take a vacation to come visit a friend and see the tanker go into the air. “I love to see it when they take off,” Chau said. When it did, the gray Pegasus disappeared into the gray sky. Herald writer Dan Catchpole contributed.
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The first Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker waits to take off at Paine Field in Everett on Friday.
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EVERETT — School leaders here are hoping a little technology will help students avoid missing their buses and parents know where that bus is on its route. The Everett School District is encouraging use of an app that will show a map of the scheduled route of a student’s bus and estimate when it will arrive at each stop — though it won’t reveal whether any specific student is actually on the bus. It is the first district in Snohomish County using the app known as My Stop. “We are hoping the service provides a measure of comfort for our families so they can have an idea when their child’s bus is coming and they will not be waiting at a stop if it is late,” Everett schools spokeswoman Diane Bradford said. The app is free to families with students attending Everett schools. It can be downloaded onto smartphones, tablets and home computers and works with iPhone and Android devices. The app only tracks vehicles and not the students on board. The data it produces is derived from GPS devices employed on each of the district’s school buses, Bradford said.
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