To the delight of the local mosquitoes, Nicholas Hasson steps through a tangle of prickly spruce branches while wearing a backpack that holds a scientific instrument. Hasson is walking as straight a line as he can through a Fairbanks subdivision built in the boreal forest. Hasson studies permafrost at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified at 3:17 am on Saturday that a suspect was “observed taking a large stack of mail into a rented U-Haul pickup truck from mailboxes on Chena Hot Springs Road,” troopers reported. Due to that alert reporting people stealing items in the area, AST located the U-Haul and initiated a traffic […]
Multi-month operation into child pornography and non-compliant sex offenders concludes. (ANCHORAGE, AK) – Last week, a Fairbanks Grand Jury indicted two men from Interior Alaska on multiple charges related to possession and distribution of child pornography. The charges came as a result of Operation Northern Exposure, a joint Alaska law enforcement operation to disrupt, stop, […]
A 21-year-old Fairbanks man has been arrested and is charged with Robbery I, Assault, Criminal Mischief, Theft and Vehicle Theft after troopers there responded to multiple calls on Sunday morning and afternoon. The caller reported to troopers that the suspect, now identified as Anthony Simpson, age 21, had “pistol-whipped him before stealing his vehicle and […]