ANCHORAGE – A former city treasurer was arrested this week after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion. The indictment charges that from 2015 to 2022, Jess George Adams of Willow embezzled more than $1.16 million from the City of Houston in Alaska and from […]
Simon Weyiouanna pleaded guilty Friday to murder in the second degree for the 2018 stabbing death of Cheri Ingram. The State entered into a plea agreement with Mr. Weyiouanna for a sentence of 75 years with 25 suspended, and 50 years to serve. Weyiouanna was reported to police when bystanders saw him dragging what appeared […]
At 6:37 pm on Wednesday evening, troopers received a 911 call from a woman on East Pace Drive who reported that she had just left a residence at that location after being shot in the face with a pistol by 59-year-old Juan Casiano and that a violent armed altercation was ongoing at that residence. Troopers […]
According to their report, Alaska State Troopers and the Bureau of Highway Patrol responded to a report of a head-on collision at mile 59 of the Parks Highway in Houston at 5:35 pm on Wednesday evening. Upon arrival at the scene, investigators found there drivers and lone occupants of the vehicles involved had died as […]