ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging an Anchorage man with intentionally lighting an apartment on fire. According to court documents, Paul Bates, 24, started a fire in an apartment building located on East 12th Avenue in Anchorage on Oct. 30, 2022. Bates lived in the apartment complex […]
(Homer, AK) – Thursday, a Homer jury convicted 52-year-old Debra Spencer of one count of first-degree arson and one count of first-degree criminal mischief. At trial, the evidence showed Spencer set fire to Brad Kirby’s home in 2017. Spencer and Kirby were neighbors in the village of Nikolaevsk. Spencer repeatedly threatened Kirby in the months […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, after a four-week trial in front of Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby, an Anchorage jury found Jimmy Dale Cates guilty of one count of murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, one count of attempted sexual assault in the first degree, two counts of arson in […]
Alaska State Trooper reported on Monday that the human remains discovered by a caller on Saturday evening have been tentatively identified as those of a Soldotna fugitive wanted in an Arson/Shots-Fired incident on October 15th, 2022. Troopers responded to the location near the Funny River after receiving the call and located partial remains, firearms, and […]