Port Angeles woman charged on two drug counts
Published 12:01 am Friday, March 16, 2012
PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles woman who is serving time in Lewis County was charged in Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday with two counts of delivery of a controlled substance.
She allegedly sold heroin to undercover Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team informants last July and October.
Ashleigh L. McLennan, 26, will be transferred from the Lewis County jail to Clallam County on a $50,000 warrant when she finishes serving time in Chehalis for unrelated drug charges, authorities said.
Oct. 6 incident
McLennan, also known as Ashleigh Dodge, allegedly sold an eighth-ounce of heroin to an informant in Port Angeles for $140 on July 12 and 6.3 grams of heroin to an informant in unincorporated Clallam County just southwest of Port Angeles on Oct. 6, according to court documents.
Police said the second sale was set up by McLennan’s husband, Todd Dodge, who was arrested on a related investigation Tuesday in Centralia.
OPNET Detective Sgt. Jason Viada said the informant purchased the heroin directly from McLennan in July. McLennan was an accomplice in the October sale, Viada said.
School bus stop
Both transactions occurred within 1,000 feet of a designated school bus stop, Viada said.
Dodge, 40, is being held on $25,000 bail in the Clallam County jail on a heroin delivery charge.
“OPNET is continuing the process of investigating the rise in heroin cases that hit our communities in 2011,” Viada said.
“Several more arrests are anticipated.”
Viada said he observed a spike in crimes related to heroin and Oxycontin pills on the North Olympic Peninsula last summer.
