Alaska Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson warns of a telephone scam affecting Alaskans, with callers pretending to be from the Social Security Administration. The callers try to get you to reveal your Social Security number or give them money. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns that tens of thousands of Americans have received these […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On November 13, 2019, a trial jury convicted Jason Madison of Assault in the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Degrees for strangling his then four-year old foster child with a belt. Mr. Madison was tried before the Honorable Andrew Peterson in the Anchorage Superior Court. According to Assistant District Attorney Betsy Bull, […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton has sentenced 32-year-old Gina Virgilio to 60 years in prison for murdering her fiancé Michael Gonzalez in 2012. Virgilio previously pleaded guilty to a single count of first-degree murder on the morning trial was scheduled to begin in April 2019. Pursuant to the plea agreement, Virgilio could […]
On September 24, 2019 an Anchorage jury convicted 36-year-old Jose Miguel Contreras Evangelista of multiple offenses stemming from an east Anchorage shooting incident in which he fired several gunshots into a neighbor’s trailer with a mother and three of her children inside. As officers were responding to reports of the initial shots, Evangelista fired additional […]