On Tuesday night, a Noorvik VPSO was held at gunpoint by a resident there.

The Norrvik VPSO was responding to a disturbance report at a residence in Noorvik, when he was confronted by Noorvik resident 45-year-old Arthur Ballot.

According to the trooper dispatch, Ballot raised and aimed a scope-equipped AR-15 at the VPSO as he neared the residence and told the VPSO that told that if he moved, he would be shot.

Before the incident could escalate however, another man, identified in the dispatch report, as Oscar Mulluk, grabbed the firearm away from Ballot before he could carry out his threat and retreated back inside the residence with it.

Ballot was arrested and taken to the Noorvik Public Safety building’s holding cell.

The firearm was turned over to the VPSO without incident by Mulluk.

Ballot was charged with Assault III on a Police Officer, Misconduct Involving a Weapon IV, and transported to the Kotzebue Regional Jail Facility. He is being held there without bail.

The community of Noorvik, with its population of approximately 670, is located on the right bank of the Nazuruk channel of the Kobuk River 47 miles east of Kotzebue.

Noorvik, which means “a place that is moved to,” in Inupiaq, was established in the early 1900s by fishermen and hunters from Deering and settlers from Oksik, from upriver.