FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Florida man was sentenced last week to 13 years in prison for leading a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in Fairbanks. According to court documents, Willie Lewis Wilson Jr., 41, of Madison, Florida, conspired with others to operate a drug trafficking organization in Fairbanks. Wilson was the leader of the organization […]
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 […]