An Alaska Air National Guard chopper plucked an injured pilot and passenger from the west side of Cook Inlet after a crash there on Wednesday evening according to troopers. At 7:16 pm on Wednesday, pilot, 65-year-old Michael Eugene Beckwith contacted authorities to inform them that he had crashed his Stinson 108-3 during take-off near the […]
On September 24, 2019 an Anchorage jury convicted 36-year-old Jose Miguel Contreras Evangelista of multiple offenses stemming from an east Anchorage shooting incident in which he fired several gunshots into a neighbor’s trailer with a mother and three of her children inside. As officers were responding to reports of the initial shots, Evangelista fired additional […]
Alaska State Troopers were contacted about a potentially serious incident by the Teeland Middle School staff in Wasilla on Tuesday morning and immediately responded, AST reported on the Trooper dispatch on Wednesday. Troopers responded to the scene after being informed that a student there, who had a silver metal case, resembling a gun case, made […]
Anchorage police announced the arrest of a suspect in the burglary of a commercial building on Commercial Drive during the early morning hours of Tuesday. An APD traffic unit while patrolling the area on the 3100-block of Commercial Drive heard a tripped alarm at an address there and called it in to dispatch. Shortly after […]