The owner of an Anchorage process server, A-1 Process, was arrested on Tuesday. The company has been under investigation by the Alaska Bureau of investigations since January 16 after after Alaska State troopers received approximately 18 complaints regarding improperly served documents.
35-year-old Anchorage resident Donna Curtis was arrested without incident on Tuesday, February 4, after the investigation by the Bureau revealed that Curtis signed a notarized return claiming to have served civil process at a residence on Joint Base Elmendorf Fort Richardson on January 3, 2013. But, the investigation found that the subject allegedly served was not even in the state of Alaska at the time. Further investigation found that that person’s military orders confirmed that the person was absent from the state.
This latest incident of alleged perjury is only one of several complaints that have been leveled at Curtis and her company. In another instance in 2012, Curtis claimed to have served papers on a person who had been absent from the state of Alaska for at least five months before the alleged serving, according to the Alaska State troopers.
Although law enforcement officers serve criminal warrants, legal documents in civil cases are generally served by process servers.
Coincidentally, Curtis’s A1 Process Service is listed on the State of Alaska’s Department of Public Safety Division of Statewide Services document stating that she is licensed and authorized to serve process statewide as of publication on February 4, 2014, the same day as her arrest.
A warrant was issued for Curtis and she was arrested at her Anchorage home on Perjury charges, and transported to the Anchorage jail where she was remanded and bail set at $250.