FROM THE BLOTTER

Drug charges for local woman

WASILLA — 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Wednesday on drug charges.

Sherry Johnston, mother of Levi Johnston, boyfriend of governor Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, was out on $5,000 bond as of Friday.

Alaska State Troopers say she was arrested during an undercover investigation and that they are charging her with three counts each of second- and fourth-degree drug misconduct. The third-degree charges are generally reserved for those caught distributing drugs.

Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said the drug involved was Oxycontin.

Home invasion suspects jailed again

WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers Thursday re-arrested one of two men they allege were responsible for a string of home-invasion robberies.

Adam Blodgett, 25, Wasilla, was arrested at a residence off of Charley Street. He had been out on bail. Court records show he failed to appear at a hearing Dec. 9. Troopers arrested him on a warrant.

Blodgett and Brandon Straight, 27, were arrested in September. At the time, investigator Ramin Dunford said they were charged in three home-invasion robberies in the Valley.

In each case, two men barged into the homes, held the residents at bay, usually with guns, and made off with Oxycontin. Other items were taken in the robberies, but the drugs seemed to be the target.

Blodgett was held jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $10,000 bail. He is scheduled for trial Feb. 2.

Wants to be home for Christmas

PALMER — A Wasilla man took less than a week to settle his trespassing case because he apparently wanted to be out of jail for Christmas.

According to court records, William L. Murray II, 29, pleaded no contest to trespassing in exchange for a 120-day jail term. Comments in the file attributed to Murray indicate he “wants to be out for Christmas.”

Trooper Kevin Blanchette wrote in an affidavit filed with the case that residents of Calico Drive called troopers at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday saying a car had gotten stuck in the ditch on their street.

The homeowners said they watched Murray and a teenage boy wheel a dirt bike away from a neighbor’s property after getting stuck.

The neighbor confirmed the bike was missing.

Troopers eventually caught up with Murray and a 15-year-old boy witnesses placed at the scene. The boy said Murray drove him to the home so the boy could pick up the dirt bike.

Blanchette wrote that in an unrelated case, numerous vehicles and other stolen property “recovered at Conway’s property,” but “the red dirt bike was left on Conway’s property. At this time, the dirt bike is not reported stolen and no owner has been located.”

A trooper press statement says the boy was released to a parent.

Murray, on the other hand, was charged with trespassing, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and driving on a suspended license. When he pleaded to the trespassing charge the others were dismissed.

Magistrate David Zwink ordered Murray to report to serve his sentence Dec. 29.

—Compiled by Andrew Wellner