Megan Peters reported in the trooper dispatch on Friday that the State Crime Lab revealed that the heroin that was seized in the small southwest Alaska community of Quinhagak contained more of the synthetic opioid Fentanyl than heroin. The powerful synthetic opioid, 50-100 times stronger that heroin, caused three overdoses in the community on August […]
It was reported by troopers via the trooper dispatch on Friday that a young girl from the rural community of Grayling had perished from her injuries sustained in a August 11th four-wheeler accident. 10-year-old Aaliyah Ellie Shangin-Andrews was riding as a passenger on a four-wheeler when the driver, her 18-year-old aunt, Kaitlin Andrews swerved to avoid […]
The Alaska State Troopers revealed that a second set of remains, those of Clifford Griest, were positively identified by the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology in Texas, after they were discovered in the surf 60 miles south of Kotzebue almost a year ago. They positively identified Griest using DNA analysis. Griest had been discovered by a […]
A 21-year-old Quinhagak man accused of Attempted Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Furnishing Alcohol to Minors gained an additional hour of freedom at the expense of extra charges leveled against him after a brief escape in Bethel on Tuesday. Brenton White slipped his restraints that connected him to another inmate while on the way […]