ANCHORAGE – Thursday the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska joined with communities across Alaska in shining a spotlight on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Day. “Generations of Alaska Natives have experienced violence or mourned a murdered or missing loved one for far too long,” said U.S. Attorney S. Lane […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On May 5, 2022, an Anchorage grand jury indicted 39 year-old Jalonni Marcel Blackshear, on two counts of first-degree murder, four counts of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of incest, two counts of tampering with physical evidence, and one count of first-degree forgery. The charges […]
Talkeetna, AK – Denali National Park and Preserve mountaineering rangers began an aerial search for a solo climber on Denali’s West Buttress on Wednesday, May 4. Matthias Rimml, a 35-year-old professional mountain guide from Tirol, Austria, began his ascent from the 7,200-foot Kahiltna Basecamp on Wednesday, April 27. Already acclimatized to altitude due to recent […]
On Thursday, investigators with APD revealed that they, the FBI, AST, and NCMEC continue to investigate and search for clues in a missing child investigation that was initiated nine years ago. It was on February 10th, 2014 that then six-year-old DaShawn McCormick’s mother, Jasmine McCormick reported her son missing to Anchorage police. Her son’s father, […]