AST located and rescued a female hiker from the Crow Creek area after she activated a SPOT beacon late Wednesday afternoon, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. According to the report, 21-year-old Amelia Milling, who was hiking the Crow Creek Trail from Girdwood to Eagle River had gotten wet and ill while trying to cross […]
Authorities believe that the brown bear that attacked and killed 44-year-old Eagle River resident Michael Soltis on Monday is the same bear that attacked a searcher on Wednesday morning while that man, was out with search parties attempting to locate missing hiker last seen on Monday. The injured searcher, Paul Vasquez, was one of three searchers walking down the trail […]
The Anchorage Police Department reports that they responded to an incident that evolved into a stand-off in Eagle River late Saturday night on the 11900-block of Regency Drive. Anchorage officers responded to the residence at 8:57 pm after receiving a report of a man with a gun at that location. According to the report, the […]
Thomas Morrical, the Eagle River man wanted on 12 counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was taken into custody on Friday afternoon, APD has reported. APD had advised that Morrical was believed to be in the small Texas community of Mineral Springs and had been avoiding law enforcement. But, after receiving further information as to […]