(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, the Department of Law requested an evidentiary hearing to contest the Court’s May 12 finding that the State acted in bad faith when it adopted and implemented an emergency regulation to conduct bear removal activities last weekend for the Mulchatna caribou herd. Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor emphasized the legal and constitutional […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – On May 8, 2025, a Fairbanks jury found 41-year-old Martin Hietala guilty of Kidnapping and three counts of Assault in the First Degree. The jury acquitted him of five counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree. On July 15, 2018, Mr. Hietala restrained J.B. in a Fairbanks hotel and repeatedly strangled her, […]
(Anchorage, Alaska) — Tuesday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby sentenced 43-year-old Richard Leemon Joe for the Oct. 9, 2019, sexual assault of an Anchorage woman. On Jan.13, 2025, an Anchorage jury convicted defendant Joe of Sexual Assault in the First Degree. The evidence at trial showed that the victim and her boyfriend had spent […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Tuesday, an Anchorage jury convicted 32-year-old Dillon Nicholas Spring of six counts of Attempted First-Degree Murder, eight counts of First-Degree Assault, one count of Second-Degree Misconduct Involving Weapons, six counts of Third-Degree Assault, and two counts of Fourth-Degree Assault. The jury also determined several aggravating factors applied to Spring’s conduct, including that […]