{"id":51331,"date":"2019-08-02T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/skagway-police-say-syringes-found-on-beach-contained-narcotics\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:30:00","slug":"skagway-police-say-syringes-found-on-beach-contained-narcotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/skagway-police-say-syringes-found-on-beach-contained-narcotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Skagway police say syringes found on beach contained narcotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

Authorities are working to identify suspects after field testing confirmed “suspicious substances” found in syringes found onshore at Skagway were illegal narcotics, according to a Friday press release from the Municipality of Skagway.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Shortly before 7 a.m. last Sunday, Skagway Police Department received a report that a boat was sinking south of the Dyea Flats. The boat was from Juneau, according to a previous press release.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Skagway Fire Chief Joe Rau said earlier this week two uninjured people were rescued from the water, and the boat appeared to be a live-aboard.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Shortly after the boat sank, debris, needles and syringes began to wash up on shore and continued to be found through Tuesday, according to the press release.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Shortly after a ship Skagway authorities say came from Juneau sank debris, including syringes police say contained narcotics, washed up on shore. (Courtesy Photo | Municipality of Skagway)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

Skagway police are working with federal and state agencies to identify people connected with the incident for the possibility of prosecution, according to the press release.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

To share information, people can contact the Skagway Police Department at 983-2232.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2022 Contact reporter Ben Hohenstatt at (907)523-2243 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt.<\/b><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Police want help identifying suspects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":51332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[59,110],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-51331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-crime","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51331"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}