At 1050 a m on Monday morning, Alaska State troopers were notified that there was a 78 year old female who had walked away from an assisted living home in the Fairbanks area at approximately 9 am and and was considered missing. Troopers along with PAWS and a AST Helicopter responded to the area. The […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Friday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Brent Bennett sentenced 29-year-old Christopher Oktollik to 65 years of imprisonment for the murder of 35-year-old Lawrence McMullen Jr. in 2023. On the evening of April 9, 2023, the Fairbanks Police Department received a report of a shooting in the parking lot of the Alaska Motel located […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Thursday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Earl Peterson sentenced 37-year-old Wesley Cruikshank to 40 years imprisonment for the murder of 43-year-old Ashton Gasper-Scavette in 2023. On June 16, 2023, Gasper-Scavette and his girlfriend picked Cruikshank up from a Fairbanks restaurant after he had recently been released from jail and drove him to their […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Shaktoolik man was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison followed by 30 years on supervised release for sexually exploiting three children to produce child pornography, and for cyberstalking the children and one adult victim. According to court documents, between December 2021 and July 2023, Matthew Jackson, 23, engaged in […]