ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment on Sept. 21, 2023, charging a former U.S. Army soldier with sexually assaulting a victim while stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. According to court documents, Shawn May, 24, was arrested in Delaware on Nov. 22, 2023, for allegedly making a victim engage in […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, 24-year-old Caleb Allen Russell Leyland pleaded guilty to the murder of Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 near Thunderbird Falls. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Leyland’s plea to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. The charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder were dismissed as […]
The Alaska Department of Public Safety released the names of the victims that perished in the horrific landslide that occurred on the Zimovia Highway south of Wrangell on Friday. The 450-foot landslide that swept down the mountainside on Monday directly into three homes below took the lives of: 16-year-old Mara Heller, who was found on […]
AST states that the investigation into the deaths of three found during a welfare check at a Mat-Su residence on Monday is continuing. A welfare check was requested for a family at 11:37 am on Monday and troopers went to the home and found 45-year-old Ryan Casey, 31-year-old Kelsey Ables, and her son, 7-year-old Kason […]