Alaska State Troopers reported on Wednesday that a Wasilla man has been charged with the Sunday night shooting death of his wife on Snowshoe Lane. MATCOM dispatch received a call from 48-year-old Charles Doubek at 11:45 pm on Sunday night. He informed troopers that his wife, 54-year-old Marjorie Gardner, had been shot. Patrol officers with […]
Defendant allegedly supplied 60 pounds of methamphetamine to the Fairbanks area FAIRBANKS – Daniel Torres-Zubia, 41, of Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested by Alaska and Arizona federal agents on charges that he conspired to send large quantities of methamphetamine for re-distribution in Fairbanks, Alaska. According to charging documents, the Fairbanks Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) […]
KODIAK, Alaska –A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew assisted three mariners and their two dogs after their vessel ran aground in the Gilkey River, Alaska, late Saturday night. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located the mariners on a riverbank just north of Juneau at 8:20 a.m., Sunday, and safely transported them to emergency medical service personnel […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) was decommissioned during a ceremony Saturday at Coast Guard Base Kodiak and presided over by Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz. The Douglas Munro was the Coast Guard’s last remaining 378-foot Hamilton-class high endurance cutter. The fleet of high endurance cutters is being replaced […]