Man pleads guilty to interfering with flight crew
The man accused of disrupting a flight so badly it was forced to divert to Anchorage pleaded guilty Friday. Nobuya Michael Ochinero, 38, was accused of yelling obscenities at the flight crew after...
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Feds: USPS worker takes disability, goes fishing
A former U.S. Postal Service employee in Anchorage was arraigned Friday on charges he accepted at least $334,000 in disability and worker’s comp payments while he spent his summers fishing. The U.S....
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$2.2 million worth of meth, heroin seized in Kodiak
Kodiak police made the biggest drug bust in the history of the department Saturday, nabbing an alleged drug distributor and seizing meth and heroin with an estimated street value of $2.2 million,...
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Three Alaskans charged with passing counterfeit money
Three Alaskans are facing federal charges for passing counterfeit money at stores in the Anchorage and Eagle River area, authorities said. Forty-two-year-old Eugene David Downey Jr. of Anchorage is...
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Judge rejects 5 witnesses in Kodiak murder trial
A judge Monday refused to allow five defense witnesses to testify in the trial of the man charged with killing two co-workers at a Kodiak Coast Guard communication station. One rejected Kodiak witness...
View ArticleFerry passenger arrested following meth bust
A passenger aboard a state ferry was arrested Monday morning for possessing methamphetamine valued at around $15,000, Alaska State Troopers said. Members of the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s...
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Woman gets ‘deal of lifetime’ in pot sentence
Courtesy Coleen Whitfield / Flickr A prosecutor concedes he was giving a Juneau woman the “deal of a lifetime” when she was sentenced for a misdemeanor instead of a felony after a pot-grow operation...
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Illegal moose kill, antler transport brings fine
Courtesy Gail Fisher A 67-year-old Fairbanks man has been fined $10,000 for helping to shoot an under-size moose and for shipping the antlers out of Alaska. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Leslie...
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Soldier faces hearing in killings of Iraqi boys
Photo courtesy Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson A U.S. soldier accused of deliberately killing two unarmed teenage boys as they herded cattle in Iraq seven years ago is due in military court. Sgt. 1st...
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Authorities identify downtown assault suspects
Courtesy APD Detectives have identified suspects believed to have been involved in a Downtown Anchorage assault last weekend, authorities said Wednesday. Sunday around 2:30 a.m., police responded to a...
View ArticleKivalina VPO takes out shotgun-wielding inebriate
An intoxicated Kivalina resident brandishing a shotgun was apprehended by a village police officer and a local resident Wednesday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers said. Just before 2 p.m., troopers in...
View ArticleCommon sense or nonsense? Jury deliberates Wells’ fate
Did James Wells shoot and kill 41-year-old James Hopkins and 51-year-old Richard Belisle the morning of April 12, 2012? It’s the question jurors have been asked to answer as they deliberate the fate...
View ArticleUAA professor charged with sexual abuse of minor arraigned
A University of Alaska Anchorage professor appeared in court for the first time Thursday. Steve Pyle, 48, is charged with three counts of sexual abuse of a minor. According to charging documents,...
View ArticleMan accused of killing 4 sled dogs for barking
A 42-year-old Kotzebue man faces felony animal cruelty and criminal mischief charges for allegedly killing four sled dogs when he was intoxicated. KNOM reports (http://is.gd/twRIfY) the incident...
View ArticleWells convicted in Coast Guard murders
James Wells is going to prison for the murders of James Hopkins and Richard Belisle. A jury convicted the 62-year-old on all six counts Friday in federal court. “We all know he’s guilty, we always...
View ArticleDowntown shooting leaves woman in critical condition
A 22-year-old woman is in critical condition after a shooting and a brawl outside a downtown club early Saturday morning. Anchorage police say the shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. following a...
View ArticleAnchorage Police search for hit-and-run driver
Anchorage police are looking for the driver of a car that hit a woman, severely injuring her. At about 11 p.m. Friday night, the 46-year-old woman was crossing the New Seward Highway between Northern...
View ArticlePolice: Man vandalizes fitness club, locks himself in
Anchorage police say they’ve arrested a man who did major damage to a fitness club and then locked himself in. Police say 29-year old Deepak Chaudhary used an electric card, issued to members to get...
View ArticleOne person injured in gas station shooting
Anchorage police say “numerous rounds” were fired in an early morning shooting at a Holiday gas station on Mountain View Drive Monday. One man received non-life-threatening injuries, according to a...
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Suspect remains at large following downtown assault
Courtesy Anchorage Police Department A suspect is on the loose following an April 19 downtown assault that left one man dead and two others injured, authorities said. An arrest warrant has been issued...
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