An Alakanuk woman was arrested on DUI/Assault charges after she was driving under the influence and struck a six-year-old on a bicycle on Monday, troopers revealed. 40-year-old Joanne Leopold was driving under the influence while driving a four-wheeler in the southwest Alaska village of Alakanuk when she ran into the child causing minor injuries. After it […]
An Alakanuk man is in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center with his bail set at $150,000 following a Saturday alcohol-fueled shots-fired incident in that village, AST reports. Troopers in Emmonak received a report at 2:43 am reporting that a man identified as 52-year-old Leroy Patrick of Alakanuk had gone to a residence in that village and fired […]
An alcohol-fueled series of incidents carried out by an Alakanuk man landed him in jail after an investigation on Thursday, troopers report. A 911 call-in alerted Alaska State Troopers in Emmonak to a weapons incident in the nearby village at 4:37 pm on Thursday. Their investigation found that 46-year-old Kevin Patrick had assaulted two people […]
Alaska State Troopers based in St Mary’s were informed of an exposure related death in Alakanuk last Thursday, the trooper dispatch revealed on Wednesday. Troopers were informed at 3:15 on Thursday that “a deceased adult male had been discovered lying in the snow in the village.” The man was identified as 40-year-old Paul Ayunerak. According […]