SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Law enforcement officers of the U.S. northwest state of Alaska have arrested and criminally charged two people for trafficking drugs worth more than 1 million U.S. dollars, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The couple, identified as Eugen Toney, 62, and Denita Ann Love, 58, were indicted of trafficking methamphetamine and heroin with an estimated street value of 1.2 million dollars from California on the U.S. west coast into Alaska, according to a statement by the U.S. attorney for the District of Alaska.

Local media Thursday quoted court documents as saying that the two suspects from Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, were rounded up last Saturday in a room along with three firearms, the drugs and digital scales.

They conceded that they had traveled to California and shipped the drugs back to Alaska, court documents showed.

Alaska police made the successful arrests after they found one of the two suspects was picking up two drugs-containing parcels in which police officers placed a secret electronic device.

The packages were intercepted by Alaska law enforcement officers a day earlier.