Anchorage police dispatch received a call in reporting shots fired at the Black Angus Inn on Gambell around 7:30 am on Thursday morning and responded to the call to find that the suspect had also started a fire in one of the rooms. The Anchorage Fire Department was alerted and promptly came to the […]
Anchorage police revealed that after a three-day investigation, investigators arrested a suspect on charges of arson and attempted murder on Friday. It all began during the early morning hours of Wednesday, as APD and the Anchorage Fire Department responded to a fire on the 400-block of Eagle Street after being alerted at 2:05 am. […]
Kotzebue-based Alaska State Troopers revealed on Friday that they arrested a Noorvik man on multiple charges that includes arson after an investigation carried out by State Fire Marshals and AST into a February 11th fire in that community. AST was notified of a residential fire in Noorvik at approximately 8:25 am on Tuesday and […]
APD revealed that an Anchorage grand jury handed down a 14-count indictment against 34-year-old Tylan Fely for the murder and burning of his wife and 13-year-old daughter on November 30th on Newell Street. Fely was identified as a suspect on December 2nd. He was questioned, arrested and remanded to the Anchorage Correctional Complex for killing […]
Anchorage police have made an arrest in the November 30th Newell Street homicide and arson case, APD revealed on Monday. After identifying the suspect, now identified as 34-year-old Tylan Fely, he was taken into custody and charged with Murder I and II, Arson III, Misconduct Involving a Weapon III, Misconduct Involving a Corpse, Tampering with […]
APD investigators say that the suspect taken into custody on Friday in connection with the vehicle arson with a deceased person near Cheney Lake park has been charged with Murder II, Arson I and Tampering charges. Shortly after midnight on Friday morning patrol officers and Anchorage Fire Department personnel responded to a vehicle fire in […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton has sentenced 32-year-old Gina Virgilio to 60 years in prison for murdering her fiancé Michael Gonzalez in 2012. Virgilio previously pleaded guilty to a single count of first-degree murder on the morning trial was scheduled to begin in April 2019. Pursuant to the plea agreement, Virgilio could […]
Alaska Fire Marshal Encourages Fire Safety at Construction Sites (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – This week the Division of Fire and Life Safety is calling attention to Arson Awareness Week. Today through Friday, May 11, the focal point for this awareness campaign is “Preventing Arson at Construction Sites.” “A fire at a construction site can be […]
Although they have yet to apprehend either suspect in last Monday’s arson at the East Tudor Yakitori Sushi establishment, APD commends and thanks the public for assisting them in identifying one of the suspects. APD also said publicly to the suspects involved in the arson, “Those involved in these crimes should know that the public […]