(Palmer, AK) – Last week, a Palmer jury convicted Michael Melendez, age 36, of Murder in the First Degree and two counts of Murder in the Second Degree for causing the death of Jose Torres Ayala, then age 21, in 2023. On Aug. 7, 2023, Jose Torres Ayala, a server at the 20320 Alaskan Grill at […]
Case Is Part of Operation Relentless Justice Dwight Chris John, 74, a former church elder in Ketchikan, Alaska, pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting a minor under the age of 12. “Dwight Chris John repeatedly exploited a vulnerable child in Mexico and engaged in the exploitation of children online in Alaska,” […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Army National Guard aviators rescued an injured mountain biker from the Winner Creek Trail near Girdwood, Sept. 13, after the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers. An HH-60M medevac Black Hawk helicopter and crew assigned to G Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support […]
An MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew member from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak films three fishing vessels attached to one another in the water near Long Island. (U.S. Coast Guard video courtesy of Lt. Gregory Wilcox) ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Coast Guard and good Samaritan vessel crews responded to a fishing vessel that began taking on water […]