JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A U.S. Army Alaska soldier was found dead in Anchorage Saturday, April 9, 2022. The death is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and Anchorage Police Department as a homicide. Sgt. Julian Christopher Francis, 30, was an Army automated logistical specialist with the 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th […]
UPDATE: APD reported this weekend that Brent Smith had been redesignated as a suspect and had been taken into custody. On Monday, authorities announced that Smith had been charged with one count each of Murder I and Murder II in the death of the 30-year-old victim, now identified as Julian Francis JR. ORIGINAL: Anchorage police […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On March 31, 2022, an Anchorage grand jury indicted 39 year-old Adam Pringle and 45 year-old Daniel Rocero on two counts of second-degree murder, one count of manslaughter, and one count of evidence tampering. Pringle and Rocero are alleged to have killed Keenan Wegener on March 18, 2022. Wegener’s body was discovered by […]
ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage man was charged by information Monday and immediately pleaded guilty to passport fraud, health care benefits fraud, false statements relating to health care benefits, Social Security benefits fraud and false statements. According to court documents, William Joe Westfall, 72, was born in 1949 and served in the U.S. Navy from July […]