The U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday that sentencing took place in Anchorage Federal Court in the case of an Anchorage woman who defrauded an elderly woman suffering from dementia out of over $70,000. 53-year-old Susanna DiFranco, of Anchorage, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to one year in prison, followed […]
Mat-Su Search and Rescue have initiated a ground search for a missing woman from the Miller’s Reach area of Houston today following a missing persons report called in to troopers on Wednesday. The caller reported that 56-year-old Diana Pittser had not been seen since 8 pm on Tuesday after “Pittser left her house on foot […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Thursday morning that a Soldotna woman, listed as the co-owner of the Soldotna tobacco store, “Tobacco Distress,” as well as her husband, were arrested and remanded for selling synthetic marijuana on Wednesday. Search warrants were served at the tobacco store, and the home of 33-year-old Phillip and 26-year-old Loren Kneeland, […]
An extensive drug investigation in the Mat-Su Valley, that was sparked by the overdose death of 22-year-old Michael Chalender of Houston, has netted 177 grams of heroin and 8.4 grams of methamphetamine with a street value of $53,000 as well as nine firearms, some of which have been confirmed by troopers to be stolen, the trooper […]