(Homer, AK) – Thursday, a Homer jury convicted 52-year-old Debra Spencer of one count of first-degree arson and one count of first-degree criminal mischief. At trial, the evidence showed Spencer set fire to Brad Kirby’s home in 2017. Spencer and Kirby were neighbors in the village of Nikolaevsk. Spencer repeatedly threatened Kirby in the months […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 24-year-old Christopher Espiritu-Simpson pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree and one count of misconduct involving weapons in the second degree for two shootings in Anchorage in December 2017. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna accepted Espiritu-Simpson’s guilty plea to the charges. On December 27, 2017, Espiritu-Simpson […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 25-year-old Darin Mitchell Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 near Thunderbird Falls. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Schilmiller’s plea to one count of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree. The charges against Schilmiller stem from the […]
“Anyone surprised by this, at this point, can only be a willful denier of what Black people have said—and continue to say—about the broken culture of policing in America.” Six former Mississippi sheriff’s deputies from a self-described “Goon Squad” pleaded guilty Thursday to subjecting two Black men to racialized torture and shooting one of the […]