An Emmonak man is in custody and charged with Assault III, and Misconduct Involving a Weapon, after a Sunday incident where he became unruly and eventually shot himself in the foot. The trooper dispatch reported that on Sunday, troopers received a report of a male suffering from a gunshot wound in the village. A trooper […]
Power was knocked out to Emmonak AVEC customers on Tuesday after a fire broke out at the power plant there shortly after 10 am. Local responders were able to address the fire and extinguish the flames but not until the fire heavily damaged one of the generators that are housed in the building. By 1 am, […]
An Alakanuk man is in jail with his bail set at $10,000 after a Saturday evening collision with a pedestrian while driving a four-wheeler on the Yukon River. Alaska State Troopers in Emmonak were notified of injuries when pedestrian, 23-year-old Emmonak resident Jana Duny was struck by a Honda Foreman ATV while on the frozen […]
An Emmonak man is in jail with his bail set at $25,000 after he was reportedly involved in an assault with an axe int that community on Friday. When troopers went to the residence of 23-year-old Justin Oktoyak to investigate the incident, Oktoyak barricaded himself in the home for a short time before fleeing on […]