(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, an Anchorage jury found that the Alaska Department of Corrections was not liable for an attempted suicide in the Wildwood Correctional Complex in Kenai on Feb. 8, 2020. A woman in custody attempted to take her own life, depriving herself of oxygen for several minutes. Despite the prompt intervention of correctional […]
(Bethel, AK) – Thursday, 68-year-old Arthur Sammy Heckman, Sr. entered a guilty plea to one felony charge of Unlawful Interference with an Election for inducing or attempting to induce an election official to fail in the official’s duty by force, threat, intimidation, or offers of reward. Heckman was indicted in July 2024 on eight felony charges […]
(Juneau, AK) – Last Thursday, Juneau Superior Court Judge Mari Carpeneti sentenced 63-year-old Craig Foster to a sentence of 40 years of incarceration, with 22 years suspended and 18 years to serve for a conviction of Sexual abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree. Foster was initially charged with multiple sexual offenses based on ongoing […]
(Juneau, AK) – Whitney-Marie Bostick begins her new position as the Juneau District Attorney last week. “Ms. Bostick joined the Anchorage District Attorney’s Office in 2019 as an attorney in the General Trial Unit before moving to the Domestic Violence Unit in 2020. She has served as the supervisor for the Domestic Violence Unit since […]