Four Anchorage individuals were indicted for “attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections Anchorage Correctional Complex” after hatching an elaborate scheme to smuggle drugs into the jail the Department of Justice revealed on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that inmate 32-year-old Steven Cao along with Brandon Beltz, age […]
A North Pole man was placed under arrest after a report of a man firing a weapon from a moving vehicle was called in to Fairbanks-based troopers at 6:34 pm on Tuesday evening. Multiple troopers responded to the scene in North Pole and learned that 52-year-old Curtis Gearhart had fired several rounds from his vehicle […]
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 […]
A female inmate at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center was charged with one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance in Federal Court on Tuesday after a rash of overdoses on the powerful narcotic Fentanyl in that facility in October. The first of five overdoses at the facility occurred the very same day that 36-year-old Dorothy […]