Alaska State Troopers report that they were contacted by a group of pack rafters recreating on the Little Chena River 30 miles east of Fairbanks on Sunday and notified that they had found a disoriented man and provided GPS coordinates of the man’s location. “The group reported they located a male on the riverbank who […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 25-year-old Darin Mitchell Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 near Thunderbird Falls. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Schilmiller’s plea to one count of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree. The charges against Schilmiller stem from the […]
(Bethel, AK) – On Aug. 4, 2023, following a three-week trial, a Bethel jury found elementary school teacher John Mark Hammonds guilty of 14 counts of felony sexual offenses. Hammonds, 49, was an elementary school teacher and coach at the Akiachak school while also acting as a self-proclaimed pastor in the village of Akiachak in southwest […]
FBI seeking to identify other potential victims ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A man was arrested early Saturday morning in Anchorage on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement with attempted enticement of a minor, attempted production of child pornography and possession of child pornography depicting a minor under 12 years of age. According to court documents, […]