The defendant will also pay nearly $1M in restitution to the U.S. government. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage businesswoman was sentenced Monday to 3.8 years in prison for lying on federal loan applications and stealing identities to fraudulently obtain nearly $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds. According to court documents, Cheryl Labrie, 39, was the […]
The Anchorage Police Department is investigating a fraud ring that used stolen credit and debit card information to make unauthorized purchases at several unrelated retailers. If you notice a charge you didn’t authorize from March – July the Anchorage Police Department would like to hear from you. This investigation involves fraudulent tap to pay purchases […]
Almost 49,000 voters made their way to 297 polling places in the territory of Alaska on August 26th,1958. The voters cast their votes for a proposition in a six-to-one margin in the special election to approve statehood for the territory. The turnout was so tremendous that in many of the polling places, the ballot supply […]
ANCHORAGE — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a crew member who fell overboard from a fishing vessel in Sawmill Bay early Sunday morning. Watch standers at U.S. Coast Guard Sector Western Alaska & U.S. Arctic received a report of a crew member falling overboard from the fishing vessel Inlet Sunrise in Sawmill Bay at approximately 12:07 a.m. Sunday. Following a ten-hour search by the U.S. Coast Guard, Good Samaritans, and Alaska State […]