An SOS message from an InReach device on the Goodpaster River near Delta Junction was received by the International Emergency Response Coordination Center at 12:03 pm on Friday. In turn, the center relayed the information to the Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers. According to the report, 66-year-old Gary W. Pitt of Mt Vernon, Texas, capsized while being […]
US attorney Karen L. Loeffler of the US Justice Department announced on Monday that a federal grand jury convened on March 16th and handed down two separate indictments for two Kodiak brothers, 49-year-old Mark Benton and 55-year-old David Benton for federal firearms and drug trafficking crimes. Mark Benton was the subject of the manhunt by […]
Alaska State Troopers arrested two Grayling men on 99 criminal counts in that community on Tuesday, the trooper dispatch reported. On Tuesday, troopers traveled to Grayling and arrested Douglas and David Deacon following an investigation that revealed that Douglas had violated his conditions of release. had made contact with a specific female in the community, […]
A two-month-long investigation into thefts in the Anchorage and Wasilla areas ended in arrests on Thursday. The investigation found that David and Genevieve McGrath, both 21-years of age, “were responsible for the theft of several hundred items valued at approximately $10,000 from local retailers,” the trooper dispatch reported. When drug connections in the case were […]