Eighty-eight potential jurors began the day at a Anchorage Federal Court yesterday as the selection process began in the case against members of the Alaska Peacekeepers Militia. By the end of the day, nine women and seven men were chosen to sit on the jury of twelve with four as alternates.
The former Executive Director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, who was charged with embezzling $475,000 from the organization, pled guilty to two counts of theft, a count of misapplication of funds, as well as a count of money laundering in Federal court yesterday.
The National Guard, Coast Guard, Sitka Mountain Rescue Personnel and others are continuing the search for 13-year-old Makayla McRoberts who has been missing from Port Protection since yesterday.
Kodiak will lose roughly half of it tour ships next year as Holland America re-deploys their ships in 2013.