A Noorvik man is in jail on Felony DUI charges and assault after an incident late Friday afternoon in the community of Noorvik. At 4:30 pm, the Northwest Arctic Borough Village Public Safety officer in Noorvik opened an investigation into an incident there after a victim called in to the VPO to report an assault. […]
A Selawik man is in custody at the Kotzebue Regional jail on DUI, Assault and a warrant arrest after an incident in the small community of Nooorvik this weekend. It was early Saturday morning just after midnight that the Noorvik Village Police Officer attempted to stop 22-year-old Tommy L. Snyder while Snyder was operating his […]
The dispatch of two hasty teams by Alaska State Troopers and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Volunteers back to back on Tuesday and Wednesday prompted AST to make two suggestions for safe traveling in the region. After receiving a report of an overdue traveler going from Kotzebue to Buckland on Tuesday morning at […]
With temperatures dipping to almost -30 degrees F, a Northwest Arctic Borough Village Public Safety Officer in Shungnak received a call-in of a female lying motionless in the snow. The officer responded to the area near the Shungnak Post Office to find a Shungnak resident, 38-year-old Elaine Tickett highly intoxicated and unable to stand in […]