20-year-old Robin Gattis, admitted drug dealer, confessed drug conspiracy ringleader, and son of Wasilla's Representative Lynn Gattis, was sentenced to 16 years in U.S. District Court on Drug Conspiracy charges during a three-hour sentencing hearing on Thursday.
A report of a crashed plane near the airstrip in Sterling was responded to by Alaska State Troopers at 12:15 pm on Wednesday.
The death of the 18-month-old child reported on December 1 after the already-deceased child was brought to the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, has been deemed a homicide by authorities after an investigation by troopers and the Fairbanks Police Department.
A Ketchikan man was arraigned on a charge of assault on a Federal officer in Juneau on Monday according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler on Tuesday.