ANCHORAGE – Following a three-week trial in U.S. District Court, a federal jury convicted an Anchorage man on charges of murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise, using a firearm to commit murder in a drug trafficking crime, drug conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Matthew […]
ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joshua M. Kindred to 285 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for sex trafficking and drug offenses. Davon Smith, 29, was found guilty by a federal jury in August this year on three counts of sex trafficking and one […]
On Thursday night, an accident on the Seward Highway would reveal a large stash of drugs being transported in the vehicle. Troopers responded to a vehicle in the ditch at mile 48 of the Seward Highway at 8:10 pm on Thursday night and made contact with the occupants of the car. Contact was made with […]
WASHINGTON — In the shadows of Washington’s government office buildings, Gary Hayes searches for another dose of heroin, chasing a high that will last only a few hours before he wants more. “It’s hard to stop using when you are living on the streets and there’s no treatment help,” Hayes told VOA. The 28-year-old Black man, […]