ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage man was sentenced Thursday to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess for being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to court documents, on July 31, 2020 Ronald Fetuao Maefau, 45, drove a car to an Anchorage apartment […]
K-9 Midas assisted in taking down a suspect who was attacking a woman with a stick in the 14th Avenue/Hyder Street area on Monday night according to an APD report. The assault was called into APD at 10 pm on Monday, the “caller stated that as he was driving by, he saw a man hitting […]
UPDATE: The Crime Scene Team has responded to the scene of this morning’s shooting and a homicide investigation was initiated following the death of the victim whose name has yet to be released. ORIGINAL: Anchorage police are reporting that officers responded to a shots-fired incident on the 5900-block of East 6th Avenue at 1:50 am […]
Anchorage police report that they have an Anchorage suspect in custody after four separate criminal incidences in the last month at local area stores. Initially, on December 17th in the early afternoon, APD officers responded to Target on Muldoon road after being contacted that suspect, 29-year-old Blake A. Anderson, who had repeatedly returned to the […]
Moments after midnight on Sunday morning, APD received a stolen vehicle report in the Russian Jack Park area. The caller and owner of the vehicle told police that he was following the car thief on Pine Street and APD officers responded to what would end up being a fatal officer-involved shooting a short time later. […]
The winter weather season has begun. Within the last hour, road conditions have become hazardous due to the snow and ice. The areas experiencing the most issues are East Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugiak and Eklutna. Whiteout conditions are being reported in multiple locations along the Glenn Highway. Please take extra caution on the roads […]
Anchorage police, on Thursday, divulged the identity of the deceased gunshot victim in Wednesday’s McCarrey Street homicide as 19-year-old Khirey K. Pruitt after next of kin notifications were made. APD dispatch received a call reporting shots fired on the 200-block of McCarrey Street at 1:20 am on Wednesday morning and when they arrived at […]
There was a large police presence on McCarrey Street on Wednesday morning as APD responded to a shots-fired report that progressed into a homicide investigation. Police were alerted to the shots-fired incident at 1:20 am on the 200-block of McCarrey and responded to the scene. When they arrived at the apartment complex they found […]
Anchorage police say that the suspect that was injured in Thursday’s officer-involved shooting has been released from the hospital and subsequently arrested on charges that include Assault 2, two counts of Assault 3, and two counts of Misconduct Involving a Weapon 2 and may face additional charges. According to the APD report, police were […]