ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal jury convicted an Eagle River man late last week for trafficking firearms from Alaska to California after a five-day trial. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, from February 2021 to April 2022, Cornelius Smith, 33, bought 28 firearms from gun stores and private parties in Alaska. During […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging an Anchorage man with being a felon in possession of a firearm during an encounter with the police. According to court documents and a press release from the Anchorage Police Department (APD), on Sept. 23, 2024, Jalen Baker, 23, possessed a firearm […]
Anchorage traffic unit officers as well as a day shift patrol responded to the Holiday gas station on East 5th Ave. after receiving a call reporting that there were three persons passed out in a silver Lexus at one of the pumps on Wednesday. When the officers arrived at 1:35 PM they saw the three […]
On Sunday, Alaska State Troopers provided a “Safety Escort” for a person transporting a family member to the Mat-Su Regional Hospital in Palmer at 12:36 am. But after arrival and during admittance at the hospital, Wasilla resident “Mason House, age 20 of Wasilla refused to give a young child to a family member,” troopers report. […]