5 suspects charged in string of home invasion robberies
Five suspects have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with the multiple home invasions in Anchorage earlier this year. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, the Anchorage Police...
View ArticlePolice report reveals ex-Marine inquired about body disposal
The former Marine charged with murdering his alleged lover, 19-year-old Erin Corwin, appeared in Anchorage court Tuesday afternoon for his arraignment. Christopher Lee is charged by the state as a...
View ArticleGuilty plea to embezzling union funds in Juneau
The financial secretary of the carpenters union in Juneau pleaded guilty to embezzling $40,000. Jonathan Henry Smith admitted to the felony during a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Juneau....
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Delta Junction cemetery vandalism destroys gazebo, headstone memorials
UPDATE (3:26 p.m.): A city administrator for Delta Junction says volunteers and city staff have replaced the damaged sections of the fence. Members of the community have offered to rebuild the gazebo...
View ArticleMore arrests expected in home invasion cases
Hrishikesh Joshi has lived in his Tulin Park Loop home for the past two years. After news that police charged five people in the Anchorage home invasion robberies, Joshi says he feels safer now....
View ArticleEx-UAA worker charged with sending email threats
A 36-year-old man fired five years ago from the University of Alaska Anchorage has been charged with sending threatening communications to UA Fairbanks employees. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner...
View ArticleBig game guide sentenced for hunting, guiding violations
The owner of a Copper Center lodge and Anchorage gun shop faces thousands of dollars in fines and 80 hours of community work service after pleading guilty to four misdemeanor hunting and guiding...
View ArticleLee changes mind, will return to California to stand trial for murder
Christopher Lee, 24, will soon be on his way back to California. Lee waived extradition Thursday morning in an Anchorage courtroom, two days after challenging his return to California, where he’s...
View ArticleRobert Hansen dies in Anchorage hospital
VIDEO: Rhonda McBride speaks with Sylvia Butcher, a friend of Robert Hansen’s wife. Serial killer Robert Hansen has died at the age of 75. He had been in declining health for the past year and was...
View ArticleFormer store owner pleads guilty to food stamp fraud
An Anchorage store owner pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of criminal forfeiture in U.S. District Court Thursday. In a written statement, the district attorney’s office said...
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Police seek sexual assault suspect
The Anchorage Police Department is seeking public help locating a woman wanted on several felony warrants following an alleged sexual assault at an Anchorage motel. According to court records,...
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Woman charged in 4-year-old’s bike death pleads not guilty
An Anchorage woman who police said was talking on her cellphone when she hit and killed a little girl on her bike pleaded not guilty Friday. Her Yang Thao, 47, was surrounded by family in the...
View ArticleAssault charges dropped against security officer
The Anchorage District Attorney’s Office has dismissed charges against a 56-year-old hospital security guard accused of assaulting a teenage girl. In mid-July, John Giacalone was arrested for first-...
View ArticleMan pleads ‘not guilty’ in Fairbanks heroin case
A man charged with dealing heroin and laundering money in Fairbanks has pleaded not guilty. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://bit.ly/1vy0tYK ) Peter Maurin Thornton entered the plea Friday...
View ArticleHelpful citizen injured while intervening in domestic violence situation
Anchorage police say 32-year-old Mykel Olson was arrested after harassing a juvenile family member on Friday night. Olson apparently asked the family member to leave a home on the 300 block of North...
View ArticleAnchorage police investigate downtown shooting
The Anchorage Police Department said no injuries were reported and no arrests were made following reports of gunfire near the Avenue Bar at 338 W. 4th Ave. early Saturday morning. The shots were...
View ArticleMcCarthy residents disarm disgruntled former employee
An armed man threatening to kill his former boss was disarmed by McCarthy citizens Saturday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers said. Troopers received a call around 3 p.m. Saturday that a “disgruntled...
View ArticleMen indicted in 2013 Anchorage crime spree
A grand jury returned an indictment Friday against three men accused of going on a six-week crime spree in October and November of last year. Miracle Tulimasealii, 24; Lonnie Reed, 23 and Siaosi Sila,...
View ArticleState charges man who was shot by Bethel police
A 31-year-old Bethel man who was shot by police faces assault and criminal mischief charges after striking an officer with a baseball bat. KYUK reports (http://is.gd/mCy8zi) Aaron Moses went to his...
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‘Craigslist Killers’ with Alaskan ties plead guilty to murder
A former Alaskan and her husband have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man they say they lured with a Craigslist ad. Miranda and Elytte Barbour, dubbed the “Craigslist...
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