After receiving a tip from Nome-based AST, the State-Wide Drug Enforcement Unit’s Anchorage Airport Interdiction Team (AAIT) made contact with two Nome-bound travelers troopers said were suspected of transporting drugs to that city on Thursday. AST said on Monday that after that contact with 33-year-old Frederick Larsen and 29-year-old Kaitlyn Priester, both of Nome, […]
A Georgia man was arrested on fugitive from justice charges after a trooper response to a lodge in the Glennallen area on Wednesday night according to the trooper dispatch. Troopers went to the Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge after a disturbance call-in at approximately 11:30 pm. When AST arrived at the scene, they made […]
At 12:30 pm on Tuesday, the Gilroy Police Department in northern California contacted Alaska State Troopers and informed them that two California subjects were residing in the Palmer area and were fugitives from justice in that state. AST investigators were able to verify that the two Californians, identified as Brianna E. Northam, age 23; and […]
(Anchorage) – Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer signed an extradition request to the Governor of Maine on March 7 for Steven Harris Downs, a former student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, accused of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual assault in the death of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in April 1993. “After 26 long years, it […]