(Kenai, AK) – Superior Court Judge Eric B. Smith found David Simmons guilty of five counts of violating an order to submit to DNA testing after hearing evidence at a court trial conducted on March 22, 2023. Under AS 44.41.035, persons convicted of felony offenses, or crimes against a person, are required to provide a DNA […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Former Alaska State Trooper Vance Peronto was convicted Friday of one count of attempted abuse of a minor in the second degree. The trial lasted a little over two weeks, and the jury deliberated for approximately two and a half days before returning a guilty verdict. The jury was unable to reach a […]
(Palmer, AK) – A Palmer jury spent 10 days in reviewing evidence before deciding that Clayton Phillip Allison, 39, was guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of his daughter, 15-month-old Jocelynn Renee Allison. The jury acquitted him of second-degree murder and manslaughter. It was the second jury to weigh the evidence in the 2008 […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, 22-year-old Denali Brehmer pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Brehmer’s guilty plea. The charges stem from the June 2, 2019, murder of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman near Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, Alaska. Brehmer admitted the facts contained in the complaint initially filed in the […]