Anchorage heroin dealers convicted on federal drug, weapons
charges  By Anchorage Daily News/ adn.comAugust 5, 2013   Two
Anchorage heroin dealers were convicted last week on federal
drug and weapons charges, according to U.S. Attorney Karen L.
Loeffler.  Christopher Thomas Mejia, 24, and Jared Thomas
Bowers, 23, were found guilty of a drug trafficking conspiracy,
attempted possession of heroin with intent to distribute and
possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime,
according to a media release issued Monday afternoon from
Loeffler's office.  Evidence presented at trial established that
Mejia and Bowers conspired to distribute approximately 97 grams
of heroin. They supplied their co-defendant, Rhadames Marmolejos
Jr., with heroin eight times, and then Marmolejos sold the drugs
to an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration,
the release states.  Additionally, in February, officials with
the US Postal Service intercepted a package containing about 2
pounds of heroin.  "The investi