(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor filed a lawsuit against James Francis Dainis and six companies owned by Dainis (264KB PDF), alleging that they engaged in widespread fraud in the ATM industry. According to the complaint, Dainis sells ATMs to small business, non-profits, and ANCSA corporations, and provides related services, including connecting the machines […]
(Bethel, AK) – Thursday, Bethel District Court Judge William Montgomery sentenced 31-year-old Daniel Buckingham of Bethel to 30 years with seven years suspended and 23 years to serve for the 2019 sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl. Buckingham was sentenced after being convicted by a Bethel trial jury in March 2022. Judge Montgomery found that an […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced 21-year-old Luimariamofoa Polu to serve 27 years in jail for the murder of 15-year-old Raynaldo Khotesouvan on July 20, 2018, in Anchorage. Polu, who was 16-years-old at the time of the murder, was charged as an adult for the crime pursuant to Alaska Statute 47.12.030. […]
(Anchorage)–On July 28, 2022, outdoor writer Paul Dewitt Atkins, 56, agreed to a plea agreement for illegally harvesting a musk ox from Kotzebue on a subsistence permit. Atkins claimed Alaska residency when he was a resident of Oklahoma and he failed to destroy the trophy value of the animal in the field. Atkins has worked […]