Monday, the FBI Anchorage Field Office announced a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Esthepen Delossantos Pebenito, also known as “Pepe” or “Stephen Pebenito,” who is wanted for his alleged involvement in the distribution of methamphetamine in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2019. On July 22, 2021, a federal […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging five southeast Alaska commercial fisherman with conspiring to illegally harvest halibut, in violation of the Lacey Act. According to court documents, Jonathan Pavlik, 43, of Yakutat, Vincent Jacobson, 51, of Yakutat, Kyle Dierick, 36, of Yakutat, Michael Babic, 42, of Cordova, and […]
WASHINGTON—In an interview Thursday with Harris Faulkner on Fox News Channel, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), highlighted the most recent Russian military incursion into Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). America’s adversaries have become increasingly aggressive in the Arctic and North Pacific, with Russia and China […]
The Coast Guard was established as the Revenue-Marine, Aug. 4, 1790, when President George Washington signed a bill drafted by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, authorizing the construction of 10 cutters that would be part of the Treasury Department. The new fleet was used to clamp down on smuggling, resulting from the high tariffs the U.S. […]