Alaska State responded to the Tonsina River approximately two miles from the Richardson Highway on Monday afternoon after receiving a report of a drowning on the river via HELO 3 at about 1:30 pm. 36-year-old Reese Doyle flipped his kayak on the river while kayaking and would sink below the surface for ten minutes before […]
At about 4:13 pm on Wednesday, an Alaska State Trooper based in Fairbanks attempted a traffic stop on a speeding BMW SUV on the Steese Highway and found that it was also called in as a REDDI vehicle an hour before. The speeding BMW failed to pull over for the stop and instead sped away […]
Fairbanks-based troopers responded to a shot-fired call in the University Ave/Sandviks Street area at 3:30 am Sunday morning that resulted in Weapons Misconduct and Domestic Violence charges, AST reports. The caller also reported a white sedan leaving the area immediately after. Upon arrival, troopers made contact with a male and female determined to be the […]
FAIRBANKS – A North Pole, Alaska, man was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline to 15 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possession of child pornography after a prior conviction for sexual abuse of a minor. According to court documents, Jason Patzke, 47, downloaded, accessed, and deleted […]