ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment Tuesday charging a Wasilla man with distributing carfentanil to two individuals, resulting in the non-fatal overdose of an adult victim and the fatal overdose of a minor. Per court documents, the Alaska Bureau of Investigations (ABI) discovered that between Nov. 14 and 15, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Wasilla doctor practicing at Alaska Brain Center was arrested yesterday after a federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging him with possessing child pornography. Sponsler also owns Alaska Music and Arts, a music, karate and dance studio for children. According to court documents, on March 17, 2025, Jeffrey Sponsler, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing child pornography and to producing child pornography of multiple minor victims known to him, including images of his hands-on sexual abuse of one of the minors. According to court documents, in 2017, Richard Dougherty, 43, began sexually abusing a minor under the age of […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging two out-of-state residents with conspiring to commit bank fraud by stealing identities and creating false identification documents. According to court documents, on April 14, 2025, the Anchorage Police Department (APD) received a report that a female entered three local bank […]