Anchorage, Alaska – At approximately 3:18 pm, on October 14, 2021, an unknown suspect entered a First National Bank Alaska branch located at 1210 West Northern Lights Blvd in Anchorage, and presented a note demanding money from a bank employee. The suspect then fled the scene on a bicycle. Witnesses have described the suspect as […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King isn’t your everyday C-130. Configured for combat search and rescue (CSAR), the King is packed with sensors designed to search for isolated service members, and it has four wing-mounted tanks that can pass JP-8 aviation fuel to CSAR HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters while airborne. […]
APD received a call at 9:52 am on Tuesday reporting that a driver was passed out behind the wheel of a gray Honda Odyssey at West 25th and Spenard and police responded to the location. When officers arrived, they located and blocked in the van that was parked but running. When they approached the van […]
Anchorage police report that they captured, after a brief encounter and footchase in East Anchorage’s Northway Mall parking lot, the suspect responsible for a stolen vehicle reported on Monday and a stolen handgun from another vehicle on Tuesday morning. On Tuesday evening, a patrol officer spotted the stolen GMC Sierra that was taken from the […]
(Kodiak, AK) – On October 2, 2021, Evan P. Nicolai, a monk associated with the Russian Orthodox Church, turned himself into the Kodiak Police Department to report that he had sexually abused an 8-year-old child. Mr. Nicolai arrived accompanied by the abused child’s parent and a Priest of the Kodiak Russian Orthodox Church. As a monk, […]
October 13, 2021 (Anchorage, AK) – Today the Alaska Department of Public Safety and Alaska State Troopers arrested 39-year-old Soldotna resident Benjamin Strachan. Strachan is employed as an Alaska State Trooper in Soldotna. In an effort to maintain transparency the following information is being released today: On Saturday, October 9, 2021 the Kenai Police Department […]
On Monday night, Alaska State troopers were notified that a convicted felon who had escaped from Anchorage’s Cordova Center in Mid-September had been reported to be at a Wasilla residence and responded to the scene. AST responded to a Silver Fox address to serve an arrest warrant on Broken Soul Koch, age 38, who escaped […]
A caller in Anchor Point called in reporting that their vehicle, a 2018 silver Subaru, had been stolen at approximately 4 am on Monday. That very vehicle almost hit two troopers who had a vehicle pulled over in a DUI investigation at mile 102.5 of the Sterling Highway a few minutes later. The near-miss was […]
On Monday the Anchorage Police Department revealed that they had recaptured an escapee from the Parkview Center where he had been doing time. On Friday night just prior to midnight, APD received a call reporting a suspicious vehicle and responded to the 700-block of East 34th Street to investigate. When they arrived at the scene […]