(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – In February 2016, investigators with the Alaska State Troopers Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit in the Mat-Su (SDEU-MatSu) began an investigation into the importation and sale of heroin into Alaska from Portland Oregon. SDEU was able to identify the suspect as Rodney J. Anderson, 53 of Portland, Oregon. On April 14, 2016, just after […]
The Air National Guard reports that they have a helicopter with the 210th Rescue Squadron poised at the base of Bear Glacier in the Harding Ice Fields ready to fly up to the rescue of of two stranded hikers as soon as the weather clears enough to do so. Terrain and weather are prohibiting rescue […]
Troopers responded to the scene of an accident on Jonesville Mine Road in Sutton at 12:50 am on Sunday morning to find a red Jeep Cherokee down an embankment and partially submerged in a lake there. They conducted an investigation and contacted the driver, and arrested her on DUI charges, the trooper dispatch reported. Besides […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — When not wrenching on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for 40 hours a week, one Alaska Army National Guardsman trades in her flight suit for a pair of sneakers and the dance floor. Sgt. Brianna McMillen is a crew chief with 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, and has served five […]