ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Eagle River man pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count sexual exploitation of a child for production of child pornography and one count possession of child pornography. According to court documents, Michael V. Ross, 32, coerced a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and documented some of the abuse through pictures […]
(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 […]