(Bethel, AK) John Paul Donald Douglas was sentenced Tuesday in Bethel to ten years imprisonment with six years suspended and four years to serve after pleading guilty to a consolidated count of possession of child pornography. On May 8, 2017 investigators with the Technical Crimes Unit of the Alaska Bureau of Investigation were conducting a […]
St. Mary’s-based Alaska State Troopers responded to a report of a St. Mary’s man splashing gasoline onto his residence and saying he was going to bun it down, AST reported on Saturday. According to the report, three of 24-year-old Zachariah Paukan’s family members and a friend “subsequently fled the residence in fear of a fire being started,” […]
Troopers revealed that a Prince of Wales Grand Jury handed down a 10-count indictment against a Metlakatla man on charges of child pornography. An Unlawful Exploitation of a Minor and online enticement of a minor investigation began on September 29th after receiving a report that a 15-year-old girl had been receiving explicit messages via messenger. Following […]
ANCHORAGE-Today, Senator Berta Gardner (D-Anchorage) announced she has prefiled legislation to raise the minimum age to marry in Alaska to 18 or emancipated minors above the age of 16. A child in Alaska currently can marry at 14 years old with the approval of a Judge. “It astonishes me that our state will allow a […]