(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 […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, Peejay Her, 58, was convicted by an Anchorage jury of one count each of Murder in the First Degree, Murder in the Second Degree and Tampering with Physical Evidence. The defendant also pled to Misconduct Involving Weapons in the Third Degree for being a convicted felon in possession of a concealable […]
(Klawock, Alaska) – A jury in Prince of Wales found John James guilty last Friday on multiple charges for driving under the influence, crashing his vehicle into and severely injuring a mother and causing injury to her infant daughter near Klawock on Nov. 28, 2023. James, 66, was driving under the influence of alcohol when he […]