While investigating a call of a suspicious person attempting to enter a Noorvik home early Tuesday morning, officer Itta with the Nooorvik Village police encountered a Noorvik man with a knife who brandished it at the officer.

Oficer Itta contacted 25-year-old Noorvik resident Jimmy Lee Coffin at the scene where he had gone to investigate a call at 4 am on Tuesday. The intoxicated Coffin brandished a knife at Itta and “made threatening movements with it,” according to trooper dispatch.

In time, Officer Itta convinced Coffin to relinquish the knife and then placed Coffin under arrest. During the arresting process, Coffin began fighting with the officer, but the officer prevailed, was able to subdue his suspect and then deposited him in a holding cell in the village.

After Coffin was safely in his holding cell, further investigation would find that Coffin had earlier assaulted a 15-year-old female family member by throwing her down a flight of stairs. When looked into further, it was found that this was not the first time that Coffin had assaulted the girl. It was determined that Coffin had punched the girl in the face the week before.

Alaska State Trooper records would show that Coffin was on unsupervised probation for an incident in 2010 when Coffin had assaulted another of the community’s Police officers, and for having a weapon when he was under the influence of alcohol.

Delving further into Coffin’s past, it was found that he was on Federal probation for numerous weapons violations in the same incident. It was in August of 2010 that Coffin hit the village police officer in the head while the officer was on the phone to troopers, stole his uncle’s guns, then forcibly took the officer’s four-wheeler keys from him. Coffin threatened to shoot troopers if they came looking for him. He holed up on the side of a mountain near the village until Special Emergency Reaction Team members arrived and placed him in custody. Coffin was sentenced to three years and four months in prison in the 2010 federal case at his sentencing in June of 2011.

The 2010 incident was almost a replay of what happened in 2006 when Coffin was 18. Coffin was involved in a stand-off with Alaska State Troopers in that incident where he barricaded himself in a residence with several firearms. Coffin had told troopers that the entries into the house were rigged with explosives. He also told troopers that he was armed with weaponry that would penetrate their body armor. Coffin was subdued without incident in that case, but when troopers investigated the home, they found several loaded firearms positioned around the house near the windows and doors.

Coffin was transported to Kotzebue and remanded to the Kotzebue Regional Jail and held for arraignment and the filing of petitions to revoke his probation. He was charged with Domestic Violence Assault IV x2, Assault on a Police Officer x2 and Resisting Arrest in this latest incident.