With information provided by the Dillingham adult probation office, the statewide drug enforcement unit’s Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team (WAANT), the Dillingham Police Department and the Dillingham Alaska State troopers began an investigation into the sale and distribution of heroin at 2 PM. At 4:30 PM, a tip went into WAANT and the Dillingham police […]
On Sunday, once at 11:10 am and again at 3:48 pm, Alaska State Troopers received calls of theft from vehicles in the Girdwood area. In the initial call, the callers reported that their vehicles, parked at their residence at Crow Creek Road, had been entered and items stolen from inside. The Trooper investigation determined that […]
On Wednesday evening the Village Police Officer in the community of Ambler was called to respond to a report of a woman yelling for help from her porch. When the VPO arrived at the scene at 7:30 pm, he found a 50-year-old woman on her hands and knees hollering for help. The woman had her […]
Washington, DC — Alaska ranked first in the nation in the rate of women murdered by men, with a rate of 2.57 per 100,000, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2012 Homicide Data. This year’s report applies to 2012, the most recent year for which […]