Alaska State Troopers were notified by the village of Shungnakk that an ongoing search was talking place for a member of the community in the waters near the village at 9:38pm on Saturday night. The SAR team had been notified and had taken up the search as well. Less than an hour later,at 10:20pm, the […]
On Friday evening at 5:30 pm, troopers in Galena were notified of a woman had fallen into the Yukon River and would fail to surface. Troopers and local people from Galena responded to the scene to attempt retrieval by 6 pm. The investigation at the scene would find that 33-year-old Marie Sheldon had been sitting […]
On Tuesday afternoon at 3:41 pm, Alaska State Troopers received a call reporting a drowning in progress in Cloudy Lake in Meadow Lakes. After receiving the call troopers immediately dispatched and went to the location and entered the lake. They were able to rescue the victim and bring the victim to the safety of shore. […]
[content id=”79272″] On Sunday afternoon, troopers received an alert from Napakiak that there was an overdue boat with two aboard that hadn’t arrived as scheduled at the community. A HASTY search was launched from the community and soon the community’s VPO would locate the overdue boat submerged down the river from Napakiak. Shortly thereafter, one […]