The state dismissed all drug charges against Dean Lari last week because of what a magistrate judge described as a “technicality” and Lari’s public defender characterized as “recklessness” on the part of Haines Police.

Haines Borough staff and officials celebrated the felony drug bust publicly last October when Lari was arrested for possession of methamphetamine and marijuana and the delivery and possession of cocaine after a sting operation.

The marijuana and cocaine delivery charges…