Unalaska, AK – Two months after a major drug sweep, Public Safety is still making arrests based on the three investigations conducted this spring.

On Thursday, Public Safety arrested Juliann Tucker, 46, on an outstanding warrant for drug-related charges. She was implicated in drug sales and distribution during an investigation that started in March.

Last week, officers also arrested William Tellman, 21, for misconduct involving a controlled substance and charged him with a felony. An extended investigation had revealed that Tellman provided marijuana to a minor. According to the criminal complaint, a camera seized in April contained photos of Tellman inhaling a substance from a "home made type of gas masks with a metal smoking pipe attached to the mouth piece of the mask" and sharing the substance with an individual 15 years of age.

The two arrests follow a whirlwind undercover investigation that culminated in April and resulted in 12 arrests and 30 drug-related charges. These latest arrests aren't directly connected with the undercover investigation, but they are related to two other concurrent investigations involving the dealing of ecstasy and the mailing of cocaine, says Sgt. Matt Betzen. The active undercover operation has concluded, but officers are still processing a backlog of information and waiting to see if new information is revealed as the cases are tried.

"It's not over for April," he says. "The people who have been arrested and charged, they still have to conclude their cases."

Betzen says that despite the large number of arrests, he can't definitively say that there has been a decline in drug usage in Unalaska.

"It's hard - because we're talking about an illicit black market here -- for us to gauge whether there's any great success whenever you take a drug dealer off the streets," says Betzen. "In bigger environments where you can depend on statistics, you would apply the principles of supply and demand: If you've intercepted all the supply and the demand is still there, the price should go up. In my experience here in Unalaska, the price doesn't deviate much. In fact, you could argue that in 15 years the price has gone down."