(Bethel, AK) –Tuesday, retired Superior Court Judge Nelson Traverso sentenced 50-year-old John Hammonds of Akiachak to serve 86 years of incarceration after being convicted of one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the First Degree, three counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree, and one count each of Enticement and […]
(Palmer, AK) – Cooper Gordon, 44, was sentenced to a composite sentence of 56 years in prison for the murder of 32-year-old Terry Spencer in 2019. A Palmer jury convicted Gordon last September of Murder in the Second Degree for killing Spencer. Gordon was also convicted of Theft in the Second Degree for taking Spencer’s belongings […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected the United States’ efforts to restrict the application of well-established federal law in determining whether the State of Alaska is the rightful owner of submerged lands below the upper North Fork of the Fortymile River. The Fortymile River is 180 miles east of […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Marley Marque, 32, of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced Thursday for the 2020 murder of her 5-year-old son Jobe Christensen. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Ramgren sentenced Marque to 80 years with 30 years suspended and 50 years to serve for the Nov. 20, 2020 murder. Judge Ramgren also sentenced Marque to an additional […]