It was reported on Wednesday that North Pole man Wyatt A. Lewis was convicted of Perjury and assault following a jury trial in Fairbanks on Tuesday concerning an attack on a woman in May of 2019. The investigation into Lewis began on May 4th when he made a false report to troopers saying that a […]
A Wasilla woman fell victim to kidnapping and robbery and other offenses on Tuesday morning when she was taken against her will at her Mayflower Lane business in Wasilla. At 10:03 am, troopers responded to the report of a woman who had been restrained, assaulted and robbed at a Wasilla business. According to the report, […]
Anchorage police responded to reports of threats made by a man later identified as 35-year-old Tyler P. Merritt at 9:28 pm Sunday night on Campbell Airstrip Road off of Tudor. Merritt was located shortly after 11 pm barricaded in a vehicle a couple miles up Campbell Airstrip Road. This resulted in a large police presence […]
The Fairbanks Rural Unit with the Alaska State Troopers took a Manley Hot Springs man into custody on multiple charges following a disturbance call from that community on Saturday. Troopers responded to Manley Hot Springs at midnight Saturday and opened an investigation that found that Randall Self, age 29, had pointed a crossbow at a […]
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 […]
Anchorage police say they have no suspect descriptions in an assault at the Travel Inn at 720 Gambell Street that occurred at just before 5 am on Saturday morning. Police responded to the hotel for an assault reported at 4:42 am on Saturday to find a male victim there with life-threatening injuries. APD says that […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to a location near mile 78 of the Parks Highway early Sunday morning in response to a shots-fired call. When they arrived just after 1 am, they made contact with 57-year-old Hillary Johnson of Willow. Following a short investigation, AST placed Johnson under arrest Assault III and additional charges. The investigation […]
ANCHORAGE – A Mesa, Arizona, man was indicted in Alaska today for abusive sexual contact with a minor female passenger on a flight from Phoenix to Anchorage on April 26. The indictment alleges that Kepueli Talaiasi, 58, intentionally engaged in sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl who was seated next to him during the evening […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. federal agents have arrested more than 430 people in connection with the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, a senior Justice Department official told lawmakers Thursday, adding that the number of arrests continues to grow. The figure, announced by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann, represents more than half of an […]