ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal jury convicted an Eagle River man late last week for trafficking firearms from Alaska to California after a five-day trial. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, from February 2021 to April 2022, Cornelius Smith, 33, bought 28 firearms from gun stores and private parties in Alaska. During […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska announced Tuesday that 10 people have been charged through three indictments in connection with a drug trafficking organization operating in Anchorage. According to court documents, Rodney Godwin, 50, is allegedly the leader of a drug trafficking organization responsible for trafficking kilograms of controlled […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Tuesday, 39-year-old Tylan Lee-Kaulana Fely pleaded guilty to murdering his wife and daughter in November 2019 in Anchorage. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna accepted Fely’s plea to two counts of Murder in the Second Degree. Per the agreement, Fely will be sentenced to 100 years in jail with none suspended and […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Monday, 36-year-old Andrew John Eknaty and 35-year-old Carleigh Kaye West (formerly Carleigh Kaye Fox), of Anchorage, were sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson for causing the deaths of three people and injuring numerous others in the 2017 fire that destroyed the Royal Suites Lodge in Anchorage. Eknaty and West each […]