A 36-year-old man was arrested for drunk driving after he hit a pedestrian with his vehicle on Muldoon Road Saturday night.

Someone called police at 11:53 p.m., saying a man had been hit by a vehicle. Police found a 36-year-old man in the roadway and a blue Chevrolet Trailblazer. The driver of the Trailblazer was identified as 36-year-old Eric Potter, police said.

The victim was transported to the hospital with “serious but non-life threatening injuries,” according to police. Police said he was not crossing the road at a crosswalk.

Potter stayed at the scene, according to police, and was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol. He was taken to the Anchorage Correctional Complex.

Police said all northbound lanes of the Muldoon were briefly closed at 32nd Avenue but later reopened.

A car sought by Alaska State Troopers left the Sterling Highway and rolled Sunday after its tires were punctured by spike strips.

Two Anchorage men inside were treated at a hospital and arrested.

The driver, 19-year-old Jesse Skjegstad, has been charged with two felonies, assault and failure to stop at the direction of a police officer. He’s also charged with misdemeanor reckless driving.

The passenger, 22-year-old Justin Thomassen, was jailed on two outstanding arrest warrants. Troopers say he gave arresting officers a false name.

Skjegstad’s car was spotted speeding near Mile 70 and it reached 130 mph.

Other troopers deployed spike strips near Mile 87.

The car hit the strips, went into the ditch and rolled.

The men remain jailed Monday at Wildwood Pretrial Facility in Kenai.

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A 67-year-old Anchorage plastic surgeon has been sentenced to four years in prison for wire fraud and tax evasion.

Dr. Michael Brandner was convicted in November of four counts of wire fraud and three counts of tax evasion and sentenced Friday.

Federal prosecutors in a release say he tried to conceal more than $5 million in assets in Panama and Costa Rica after his wife filed for divorce in 2007.

Prosecutors say he drove from Tacoma, Washington, to Costa Rica, opened two secret bank accounts, deposited more than $350,000 in cash and hid 1,000 ounces of gold in a safe deposit box.

He also opened a bank account in Panama under the name of a sham corporation and deposited $4.6 million to hide funds from his wife and the IRS.

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KENAI, Alaska (AP) – An Anchorage man charged with the fatal shooting of a California man in 2013 has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.

The Peninsula Clarion reports (http://bit.ly/1qrhTJK) that 32-year-old Paul Vermillion pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter in the death of Genghis Muskox. He had initially been charged with murder as well as manslaughter. He accepted the plea deal one day before he was scheduled to go to trial.

Vermillion had reported that 27-year-old Muskox died during a fight at a residence on Dec. 5, 2013.

Troopers said in an affidavit they found Vermillion unhurt but spattered with blood and Muskox with at least two gunshot wounds in his head.

Vermillion’s attorneys had argued that their client, an Iraq War veteran, had shot Muskox in self-defense.

Information from: (Kenai, Alaska) Peninsula Clarion, http://www.peninsulaclarion.com

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Nearly 400 people in the Soldotna area lost power Tuesday morning after a Lexus was reported stolen and crashed into a power pole, according to Alaska State Troopers.

In a dispatch, the agency said at 5 a.m. 36-year-old Jerry Dourney reported his 1999 Lexus had been stolen from the Safeway parking lot, off of the Sterling Highway.

A couple of minutes later, troopers said, the Lexus was found on fire near Mile 16 of Funny River Road. Troopers said the vehicle had been crashed into a power pole.

An investigation led troopers to charge Dourney with a DUI, filing a false police report, failing to give immediate notice of an incident, fourth-degree weapons misconduct, as well as third-degree criminal mischief.

Dourney’s vehicle was towed from the scene and the Homer Electric Company dealt with the downed pole.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Alaska State Troopers say a Fairbanks-area man and woman used pepper spray and objects thrown from the back of their pickup Monday night to flee a traffic stop.

Twenty-five-year-old Logan Austin and 23-year-old Sandra Austin were stopped on the Parks Highway 72 miles from the original encounter with an officer.

They are in custody at Mat-Su Pretrial Facility on suspicion of felony eluding.

Troopers say an officer tried to stop the pickup for speeding near Mile 67 in Willow.

As the driver stepped out, he attempted to use pepper spray on the officer and sped off.

Troopers say during the pursuit, Logan Austin switched places with Sandra Austin, climbed into the truck bed and threw tools at an officer.

Troopers pierced the truck’s tires and arrested the Austins.

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Updated at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 7

One man was sent to a local hospital after he was hit by a thief attempting to flee with a stolen gas can Thursday, according to police.

An Anchorage Police Department release states dispatch received multiple reports at 9 a.m. that a Jeep SUV struck a man near the Tesoro gas station on the 7200 block of Arctic Boulevard. When police and medics arrived, they found the victim with injuries that were not life-threatening. He was taken to a local hospital in a personal vehicle, according to the release.

Police say the man was sitting in his truck while gas was pumping when a “maroon or dark colored” Jeep pulled up behind him. The release says a man “wearing dark clothing with a scruffy red beard,” got out of the Jeep and started grabbing things out of the back of the truck.

Officers at the scene said the thief stole a gas can then got into the Jeep and began to drive away.

The APD release says the victim got out and tried to take photos of the suspect’s vehicle, which hit the side of the victim as it was fleeing the area.

KTVA was told the man’s friend had gone inside to get a receipt, so the victim got out of the truck and stood in front of the Jeep to get the driver to stop. Instead, surveillance video shows the thief swerved, hitting him, and drove away, according to officers at the scene.

Anyone with information on this incident or the suspect vehicle is asked to call at 786-8900 and press zero to speak with dispatch. To provide an anonymous tip, please contact Anchorage Crimestoppers online or call 561-STOP.

This is a developing story; please check back for updates.

An 18-year-old man was arrested after he posted an “intimate video” of an ex-girlfriend on social media, according to the Anchorage Police Department.

In a release, APD wrote that an investigation into the incident began in February when school resource officers responded to a troubled student. The investigation later revealed the student was upset because her ex-boyfriend, Holden Braund-Nuss, had posted a video of the two of them on social media and sent it to her mother.

Braund-Nuss had also been suicidal, police said.

Police seized both of their cellphones and examined them.

“The examination revealed hundreds of threatening and manipulative text messages from Braund-Nuss to his ex-girlfriend, ultimately resulting in coercion by threatening to post the intimate video on the internet and sending it to her mother if his demands weren’t met,” police wrote.

Braund-Nuss was arrested Thursday at his south Anchorage home. He was charged with harassment and coercion. His bail was set at $5,000 cash, plus a third-party custodian and ordered no contact with the victim.

The 18-year-old accused of posting a sexually explicit video of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend appeared in Anchorage Jail Court for the first time Friday.

Holden Braund-Nuss is charged with harassment and coercion.

According to charging documents, over a 24-hour period in early-February, Braund-Nuss sent the victim hundreds of threatening and manipulative text messages after she broke up with him.

Braund-Nuss then posted a intimate video of them on Twitter and texted it to the victim’s mother

The charging documents say Braund-Nuss posted the video to social media with the goal of having as many of the victim’s classmates see it as possible see it.

Prosecutors found Braund-Nuss threatened and manipulated the victim, which resulted in the coercion charge. The maximum sentence is 5 years in jail, plus a $50,000 fine.

Posting a nude picture or video of a person without their consent is a misdemeanor charge in Alaska. The maximum sentence for the charge is 90 days in jail, plus a $5,000 fine.

When asked why Braund-Nuss doesn’t face child porn-related charges as well, the prosecuting attorney would only say the investigation is on-going and more charges will be added if its appropriate.

Former APD detective Glen Klinkhart says he sees a growing number of “revenge porn” cases. He says parents need to make sure their kids know how to use technology responsibly.

“We talk about the talk, but you have to have the other talk and that is, you don’t take pictures and if you take pictures, you don’t send them and if somebody sends them to you, you don’t send them out again,” said Klinkhart.

The man accused of punching a police officer while resisting arrest, causing a fracture of that officer’s orbital bone, changed his plea in the case to guilty Monday in court.

Officer Ian Fletcher was attempting to arrest 51-year-old Amos Lane in December of 2015 for violating his conditions of release for another case when the assault occurred. As the officer began to put Lane in the back of his patrol vehicle, Lane punched the officer several times in the face. He then fled the scene.

The prosecutor stated during the hearing that multiple police officers were required to subdue Lane in order to arrest him, even going so far as to use a Taser on him twice with no success and engaging in a “fist fight.”

Officer Fletcher was briefly hospitalized and required surgery for what court records show was a “blowout orbital fracture,” or fracture of the bone surrounding the eye socket. The prosecutor stated Fletcher was still suffering from the injury, and his job was directly affected by the injury. Lane’s defense team acknowledged restitution in the case may go to Fletcher for pay lost during the roughly three to four weeks he was not able to work due to the injury.

Lane pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted assault for the incident Monday, along with charges from two other cases involving felony drunk driving. Judge Michael Corey accepted his pleas and gave Lane a chance to address the court.

“My apologies to Mr. Fletcher and family, community,” Lane said. “Heartfelt remorse. I’m thankful nobody got hurt anymore than what’s been said. I will take this and we’ll move on with our lives.”

Judge Corey sentenced Lane to  three years with no probation for the assault on Officer Fletcher. He also stated Lane would be required to pay restitution to Fletcher, to be “sought” within the next 90 days.

For the felony drunk driving case, Judge Corey sentenced Lane to another three years, along with 12 additional months of revoked probation from an earlier case. As Lane was intoxicated in both DUI cases and the assault case, Judge Corey recommended Lane attend a substance abuse treatment program while serving his time.

“In my mind, I think community condemnation and reaffirmance of societal norms is right near the top, if not the top. We need to send the message that the courts will not tolerate people engaging in this kind of conduct. Period,” the judge told the court. “It just can’t be tolerated and I think that it is important that the community understands that the courts are in touch with what’s really going on out there in the street and we deliver the message in the best way we can.”

An Anchorage grand jury has indicted a woman on charges that she starved and abused her three adopted children.

State prosecutors say the woman faces 15 felony counts including assault and endangering the welfare of a child. She was arrested Tuesday and is being held on $100,000 bail.

The children are biological sisters. They were placed in the woman’s foster care in 2011. She formally adopted them in 2013.

Prosecutors say that under her guardianship, the girls’ health “significantly deteriorated.”

Authorities removed the girls from the woman’s care in September 2014. They were hospitalized for malnutrition, dehydration, neglect and the risk of “refeeding syndrome.”

The National Institutes of Health defines the syndrome as a potentially fatal shift in fluids and electrolytes that may occur in malnourished patients receiving artificial refeeding.

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A man was shot Wednesday morning when two other men broke into a Mountain View apartment, according to the Anchorage Police Department. The victim was in stable, but serious condition by early-afternoon, police said.

Two men — Ryan Fisher, 32, and Sonny Lelili’o, 18 — were arrested and charged in connection to the incident.

According to APD, in the early-morning hours Fisher and Lelili’o approached a man leaving an apartment in a complex on the 600 block of North Bunn Street.

“Fisher pointed a gun at the man, mentioned the name of a person who lives in the target apartment, and demanded that he get ‘his stuff’ back,” police wrote in a release. “The victim adult male pushed past the two suspects and ran away on foot.”

Then the duo broke into the apartment and Fisher pointed his gun at another man and requested his “stuff” again. Fischer and the man began to struggle over the gun and the unidentified man was shot, police said. APD spokesperson Renee Oistaid said she did not know details to the nature of what the “stuff” was.

Fisher and Lelili’o fled on foot and took nothing from the apartment.

Police officers were notified at 4:32 a.m. After they arrived at the scene, officers set up a perimeter. Fisher and Lelili’o were discovered asleep in a vehicle, less than a block away from the apartment complex.

Fisher was arrested on an outstanding felony warrant for drugs. He faces three charges of first-degree robbery, assault and burglary, as well as two charges of third-degree assault and weapons misconduct.

Lelili’o was charged with first-degree robbery, assault and burglary.

The Anchorage Police Department says a man was arrested in East Anchorage Friday night after stabbing another man.

Police were dispatched to a trailer home in Penland Park around 10 p.m. after someone called 911 to report they had been stabbed in the chest, according to a statement from APD.

When police arrived, they found four adults who had been drinking and were uncooperative, making it difficult to determine who stabbed the victim. After “enough evidence was obtained” showing a physical altercation had occurred, police arrest 51-year-old Farrell McCutcheon.

The victim was treated for what police described as a non-life threatening stab wound “made by a pocket knife.”

McCutcheon was charged with second- and fourth-degree assault and taken to the Anchorage Correctional Complex. He is being held on a $1,000 cash-corporate bond and a $1,000 performance bond.

The trial for a Tanana man accused of killing two Alaska State Troopers has been moved to Fairbanks from Nenana.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that Nathanial Kangas is set to go to trial in Fairbanks on May 2 in connection to the May 2014 shootings. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, one count of third-degree assault and two counts of evidence tampering.

Kangas’ father was found guilty in April 2015 of evidence tampering for manipulating the troopers’ bodies and guns after they were shot and killed. Arvin Kangas was sentenced in September to eight years in prison.

The elder Kangas told prosecutors his son killed the troopers while trying to protect him.

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Last updated at 5:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 14

A man was kidnapped at gunpoint, driven to a neighborhood roughly five miles away, and then shot in the chest and left behind, police said in a statement Saturday.

The man was taken from a home on the 9000 block of Arlon Street by two male suspects, who forced their way inside, police said. They then drove to the area near the intersection of Northfleet Drive and Southport Drive.

“The victim was taken out of the vehicle, shot once in the upper body, and left behind,” police said.

Someone in a nearby home heard the gunshot and then heard the man yelling for help and called police just before 5 a.m. Police responded to the scene and found the victim, taking him to a nearby hospital in serious condition.

Bobbi Jo Fales, the sister of the victim’s girlfriend, said there were several people inside the house — including his girlfriend — when it was broken into.

“They tied everybody up,” she said. “They went through the house. They took what they could take. And they took my soon-to-be brother-in-law out to I don’t even know where, some park, and shot him and left him for dead.”

“Police are looking into a possible motive as well as what, if any, relationship there may be between the victim and the suspects,” police said, adding that no suspect descriptions were being released “at this time.”

In a statement, APD spokeswoman Renee Oistad said the suspects were not considered a danger to the community at large. She said “this appears to be a targeted drug related event and we do not have a concern for Public Safety at this time.”

KTVA 11′s Eric Ruble is providing coverage for this case. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook for live updates as they become available.

Police say one man was wounded by a bullet in a shooting on the Glenn Highway witnesses said started after a fight at an Anchorage club.

The man sought treatment for a “bullet graze wound to the head” at a local hospital in the early morning hours on Sunday. Per law, the hospital notified police, who interviewed the man and several other witnesses about the incident.

“Accounts of what happened vary greatly and contradict one another,” police noted.

What police came to understand was the man and a group of his friends were at the LED Lounge on Sixth Avenue after midnight. “Some type of altercation” broke out between their group and another group of people, police said. The man and his friends left the club in a white Chrysler, which the police said the victim was driving.

The group in the white Chrysler went to a Holiday gas station on Fifth Avenue, where they saw some of the individuals they argued with at the club. The second group was in a “possibly black SUV or pickup,” according to police.

“After leaving the gas station, the [victim's] white Chrysler was headed outbound on the Glenn Highway when the black vehicle from the gas station pulled up next to them and fired several rounds at the Chrysler,” police explained. “The suspect vehicle continued outbound on the Glenn while the Chrysler took the Bragaw [Street] exit.”

The victim was able to drive to his nearby home, and was later dropped off at the hospital by a female, according to police.

“With the exception of cuts from broken window glass, none of the other occupants of the white vehicle were injured in the shooting,” police said.

Anyone with information on the events leading up to and including the shooting is asked to call Anchorage police at 786-8900. An anonymous tip can be submitted via CrimeStoppers by calling 561-STOP (7867) or online.

This is a developing story, please check back for updates.

The Anchorage Police Department says the victim of a shooting Sunday afternoon has been uncooperative during their investigation.

The shooting was reported shortly after 1 p.m. on the 7200 block of Foxbridge Circle. Police located the victim, who “stated he did not know who shot him or why he had been shot,” according to a statement from police. He was suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his upper body, for which he was treated at a nearby hospital.

Witnesses in the area told police they heard the victim talking with another male when the discussion “got heated.” A gunshot was heard immediately after and a “skinny black male” was seen fleeing the area on foot, according to police. A black pickup truck was also seen leaving the area just after the shooting.

APD spokeswoman said because no one they’ve spoken to saw the shooting, it was unclear whether the pickup or the male running away are in fact related to the shooting. She said their investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Anchorage police at 786-8900.

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Two members of the family featured on the reality TV show “Alaskan Bush People” are serving their sentences outside jail cells for lying on applications to get a yearly oil revenue check given to Alaska residents.

Billy Brown and son Joshua Brown were sentenced to 30 days in jail but have been serving their sentences through electronic monitoring, according to the Department of Corrections. That restricts where they are allowed to go.

Sherrie Daigle, a special assistant with the department, says the department has discretion in determining how a sentence is served, based on factors such as risk levels. She says the Browns received no special treatment.

Lawyers for the Browns did not return calls for comment.

The men pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor count of unsworn falsification. To qualify for the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, residents must have lived in the state for the preceding calendar year.

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It was an emotional day in court for the family of Bree Moore. The sentencing hearing for her killer, Joshua Almeda, began Monday. It’s the final step in a case that started almost two years ago, when Almeda shot Moore at his mother’s Hillside home.

Almeda has admitted to the shooting, and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Because he avoided a trial, Monday was the first time much of the witness testimony has been heard by the court.

All of Monday’s testimony was from an expert witness, called by the defense. Dr. Mark Zelig, a board-certified psychologist, testified that Almeda has a borderline personality disorder and serious substance abuse problem, both of which contributed to the shooting.

Zelig said people with borderline personality disorder show extreme fear of abandonment, impulse control issues and unstable relationships characterized by extreme highs and lows. He said Almeda also showed signs of long-term depression and even Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder brought on by the shooting.

Zelig said people with borderline personality disorders can get better with rehabilitation and treatment, and that after a period of 15 to 20 years, Almeda could be safe to release.

“He reports a positive attitude towards the possibility of personal change, the value of therapy and the importance of personal responsibility,” Zelig testified. “However, the nature of some of these problems suggests that treatment will be fairly challenging.”

Zelig also testified he didn’t find any evidence of physical domestic violence between Almeda and Moore, who were in a relationship. It’s an issue the prosecutor challenged during cross examination, asking if the doctor could say with certainty there was no domestic violence.

“I only can go on the evidence that I have seen, that’s been presented to me and I just didn’t see any evidence,” he testified.

The prosecutor highlighted some text messages between the couple, in which Almeda called Moore derogatory names. He also pointed out Moore will never be able to give her side of what happened.

The case received a lot of attention after Moore’s parents lobbied the Legislature to pass a law in her name — Bree’s Law. It requires middle and high schoolers be taught about dating violence.

The sentencing hearing will continue Tuesday, when the Moores are expected to speak about their loss in a victim impact statement. It will be up to the judge to decide Almeda’s sentence.

KTVA 11′s Bonney Bowman can be reached via email or on Twitter.

Lance Hagedon in court

A man was arrested after a seven-year-old girl told her mother he sexually assaulted her while she was at his Eagle River home.

The girl’s mother called police on Saturday, while the alleged assault occurred “during one weekend in September 2015,” according to Anchorage police, who said the girl only recently told her mother about it.

Police arrested 36-year-old Lance Hagedon and charged him with two counts each of first- and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. His bail was set at $50,000, with a requirement for a third-party custodian.

Police stated they “do not have reason to believe there are any other victims,” but are asking anyone who has been victimized by Hagedon to contact them at 786-8900.