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Cashmere woman’s drug-trafficking charges moved to federal court | Crime and the Courts
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Cashmere woman’s drug-trafficking charges moved to federal court | Crime and the Courts

Federal prosecutors are taking the case of a Cashmere woman accused of selling methamphetamine and fentanyl.

Allicianna Lynnzie Clark, 30, was indicted in U.S. District Court on charges of possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm while trafficking drugs and felon in possession of a firearm. Fire.

Yakima County prosecutors were dismissed without prejudice charges of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of fentanyl and methamphetamine with intent to deliver, and eluding police. By dismissing the charges without prejudice, prosecutors retain the right to renew them if necessary.

A Yakima police officer spotted a car with expired license plates on North First Street around 7:10 a.m. on August 5. The officer followed the car to the window strip at a fast food restaurant in the 1000 block of North First Street. , and I saw an employee of the store near Clark, the driver of the car, a large paper bagaccording to a probable cause statement filed by police.

Clark appeared to be putting things in her bag as a man approached the car and grabbed the passenger side door handle, the affidavit said. The officer turned on his lights and used his patrol vehicle’s loudspeaker to tell the man not to get in the car, the affidavit said, and the man drove off.

When the restaurant employee refused to take the bag from Clark, she took off, with the officer in pursuit, with the chase reaching 50 mph through a residential neighborhood, the affidavit said.

The officer broke off the pursuit for safety reasons, the affidavit said, but followed the car into an alley in the 500 block of North Sixth Street and followed Clark into a nearby yard.

She was arrested and officers found the paper bag contained a backpack with a Glock 19 9mm handgun with an extended magazine and ammunition, the affidavit states. Officers also found plastic bags containing 125.1 grams of methamphetamine, 25 grams of powdered fentanyl and 6 grams of cocaine.

Clark has prior convictions for second-degree assault, first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, first-degree theft, retail theft with extenuating circumstances, burglary, first- and second-degree attempted robbery.

In 2017, Clark was involved in an attempted robbery which ended with her being injured in a shootout with her intended victims.

She was released from prison in March and found to be in violation of the terms of her community custody, according to prosecutors.