Troopers and Local Law Enforcement Actively Working to Collect Owed DNA (Anchorage, AK)— The Alaska Department of Public Safety and our local and state law enforcement partners have begun collecting nearly 20,000 DNA samples that are lawfully owed to the State of Alaska. In August 2021, Governor Dunleavy announced the new initiative to collect all […]
January 3, 2022 (Alaska) – The Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management will be conducting a test of the statewide Amber Alert System on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at 10:20 am. During the test the Emergency Alert System will trigger an alert message on all satellite, broadcast, and cable […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The Alaska State Troopers Alaska Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of the Wasilla Police Department and Kenai Police Department, has arrested 40-year-old Wasilla resident Garrett Willis on multiple domestic violence assault charges. Willis is an Alaska State Trooper Investigator based in Anchorage. In an effort to be completely transparent with the […]
October 22, 2021 (Anchorage, AK) – The Alaska Bureau of Investigation (ABI) Cold Case Investigation Unit (CCIU) recently launched another attempt to identify the remains of one of serial killer Robert Hanson’s victims, the young woman that has been identified as Horseshoe Harriet for 37 years. In August 2021, a new DNA profile for the […]