Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that today, after deliberating for 8 hours, a jury of 6 women and 6 men found James Michael Wells guilty of the April 12, 2012, murders of U.S. Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins (“Hopkins”) and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle (“Belisle”). Wells, now […]
UPDATE: APD has released the identity of the homicide victim after next of kin notification as 59-year-old Teodoro F. Berdan. ORIGINAL: At 12:14 am early Thursday morning APD dispatch received a call reporting a disturbance with injuries and officers responded. When officers arrived, they found a man deceased at the residence and a woman with […]
Troopers say that a Nikiski man was arrested and jailed after a traffic stop for moving and equipment violations early Friday morning on Rambling Road in Nikiski. Troopers performed a traffic stop on 29-year-old David A. Bartley after observing equipment and moving violations as Bartley was on a four-wheeler in that community at 1:09 am […]
Officers with the Anchorage Police Department responded to a shots-fired complaint originating near the 3300-block of Boniface Parkway on Tuesday night. When responding officers made contact with the complainant in a trailer at the incident location, the man told officers that “he was sitting on his bed when he heard several shots fired from the […]