(Ketchikan) — The Ketchikan District Attorney’s Office recently secured convictions in three separate sexual abuse cases. On Feb. 10, Ketchikan Superior Court Judge Katherine Lybrand sentenced 29-year-old Ricky Calvillo for Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree, Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor, and two counts of Indecent Viewing or Production of a Picture. Pursuant […]
(Kotzebue, AK) Monday, Utqiagvik Superior Court Judge David Roghair sentenced 39-year-old Austin Swan and 31-year-old Brandon Swan, both of Kivalina, after both men were convicted of Sexual Assault in the First Degree and Attempted Sexual Assault in the First Degree. Austin Swan was sentenced to serve 55 years and 228 days of incarceration, and […]
(Kodiak, AK) – Monday, a Kodiak jury found Hilarion Soriano Jr., 43, guilty of one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree. The jury deliberated for a day and a half after a two-week trial. The conviction stemmed from an incident that occurred in Kodiak around 2017, when Soriano engaged in sexual […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska filed a complaint Tuesday that challenges a series of federal administrative decisions that cast into uncertainty long-settled jurisdictional authority over land in Alaska. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and names officials within the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) […]