AST’s Helo-3 diverted while on the return leg of a rescue mission that grabbed three from Lake Creek and plucked two additional stranded campers from the mouth of the Eska Creek on Monday evening, the trooper dispatch reported on Tuesday morning. At 4:35 pm on Monday, Helo-3 was launched after receiving a report of a […]
An ELT activation from an aircraft near Whittier was picked up by the Rescue Coordination Center and was passed on to Alaska State Troopers on Saturday morning, troopers revealed on the trooper dispatch. The Emergency Locator Transmission was picked up by RCC at approximately 11:30 am on Saturday, but a response by AST was hampered by […]
April 30, 2018, ANCHORAGE – In the interest of maintaining transparency, the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST) released the following information regarding an Alaska State Trooper under arrest for attempted sexual abuse of a minor. On Thursday, April 26th, AST was notified that Trooper Vance Peronto, a 16-year veteran of AST, may have had […]
Alaska State Troopers and the Department of Corrections have opened an investigation into a disturbance involving a large group of inmates at the Spring Creek Correctional Center outside of Seward on Wednesday. It was approximately 3:18 pm on Wednesday that Seward-based AST were contacted and a response was initiated to the correctional center. But, prior to […]