(Fairbanks, AK) – Tuesday, Takadoh Veach, 25, pled guilty to murdering Lee Kalloch and shooting Rachel Yaska on Jan. 18, 2022. That evening, Veach arrived at a Slaterville neighborhood apartment and found Ms. Yaska, 22, and Mr. Kalloch, 39, in a bathroom. Veach proceeded to shoot through the door more than a dozen times. Ms. […]
(Bethel, AK) –Monday, Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters sentenced 32-year-old Daniel Nick of Kwethluk to serve 36 years of incarceration after being convicted of Kidnapping, Assault in the Third Degree, Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the Fourth Degree, Unlawful Contact, and four counts of Violating Conditions of Release. Nick was convicted of these crimes […]
(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 […]