On Wednesday night at 8:15 pm, troopers with the Criminal Suppression Unit in Wasilla pulled over a vehicle on Old Matanuska Road in a traffic stop that resulted in a passenger being arrested on warrants. Troopers made contact with a front seat passenger, who feigned autism in an effort to avoid arrest. But, unfortunately for […]
On Monday, Ketchikan-based troopers divulged that they had gotten a call reporting a kidnapping. 46-year-old Joshua Grootonk called into the trooper post and reported that his 17-year-old daughter had been kidnapped. But, while Grootonk was on the phone with troopers, his daughter walked into the trooper building and disclosed to troopers that she, in fact, […]
Early on Saturday morning a trooper on patrol in Nikiski spotted an erratic driver and attempted to pull him over on a moving violation. But, the driver, instead of pulling over, attempted to elude the officer. Spike strips were deployed, but the driver, later identified as 62-year-old Robert Keldson, attempted to drive around the device […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to the Engstrom and Beechcraft Road area on Saturday night after receiving multiple reports of indecent exposure at that location according to the AST report. Troopers opened an investigation upon arrival and spoke to witnesses that saw the incident. The witnesses told troopers that a man had stripped off all his […]