(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, an Anchorage jury returned guilty verdicts against Dustin Perry, 34, for Murder in the First Degree and Murder in the Second Degree for shooting and killing Clayton Martinelli, 47, on April 5, 2021. The evidence produced at trial showed that the two were neighbors and engaged in a noise dispute. Perry […]
(Palmer, AK) – Wednesday, at the conclusion of a two-week jury trial, a Palmer jury convicted Curtis L. Malcuit, 53, of multiple counts of Second-Degree Assault, one count of Third-Degree Assault, and multiple counts of Fourth-Degree Assault. Malcuit was acquitted of other counts of assault and sexual assault. Malcuit strangled a former girlfriend on multiple […]
(Bethel, AK) – On Wednesday, Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters sentenced 43-year-old John Japhet to 50 years with 15 years suspended for the 2022 stabbing death of Paul John in Bethel. Japhet will be on probation for 15 years upon his release from incarceration. On June 6, 2022, after a night of drinking, Japhet entered […]
ICE is preparing to deport an exonerated man to a country he hasn’t set foot in since he was nine months old, his family alleges A man who spent more than four decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was finally freed earlier this month—only to get immediately apprehended and detained by federal […]