ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage man was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason to 50 years in prison for kidnapping and drug trafficking. According to court documents, Macauther Christmas Vaifanua, 35, aka “Mac” and his brother, Faamanu Vaifanua, 31, aka “Junior” distributed heroin in the Anchorage area through the kidnapped victim between January 2015 […]
JUNEAU – A Utah man was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for the beating death of his wife during a 2017 family cruise to Alaska. Kenneth Manzanares, 43, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to the second-degree murder of Kristy Manzanares while onboard the Emerald Princess […]
JUNEAU – Jeremy Beebe, 47, of Sitka, Alaska, was sentenced Thursday to 78 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing firearms. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. Chief District Judge Timothy M. Burgess noted that the most important sentencing factor, in this case, was protecting the public from the potential […]