On Sunday evening, at approximately 8 p.m., while on patrol near mile post 81 of the Parks Highway in Willow, Alaska State troopers saw a 2002 Jeep Cherokee stranded along the road. Trooper stopped to render assistance. When troopers contacted the driver of the vehicle, the driver initially identified herself using a false name. Through their investigation, […]
Alaska State Trooper K-9 “Chevron” assisted in two drug arrests on Monday on the North Kenai Peninsula. “Chevron’s” is first assist came following a Bureau Highway Patrol South-Central Team traffic stop on a Subaru sedan near mile 111 of the sterling Highway near Kasilof. With “Chevron’s” assistance, troopers discovered that a passenger in the vehicle, 29-year-old Wasilla resident Candace McCloud, […]
Three Kodiak individuals have been arrested and are in custody at the Kodiak Jail following a search warrant issued in connection with a Kidnapping/Robbery case that took place on Monday morning in the woods outside the town of Kodiak. Arrested in the case were Jami Gibson, age 39, Philip Gibson, age 38, and Julian Valdez, age […]
Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active-duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests. The research will be published in the July 2014 issue of Addictive Behaviors, but is already […]