After a lengthy investigation spanning years, a Wasilla man pleaded guilty on Friday to “four counts related to to illegally guiding clients for sport fishing and big game, waste of fish and taking a moose closed season,” troopers report. During a hearing conducted by Assistant Attorney General Arne Soldwedel with the Office of Special Prosecutions, after […]
On April 17 a two-and-a-half-year investigation and judicial process came to a close when Robert Thompson, 53, of Rockwood, Maine, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for evading federal income tax and for illegal sales of lobsters. The Court also ordered Thompson to pay the Internal Revenue Service restitution of $65,172. “When it comes to […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young has joined Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) in introducing H.R. 774, the Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Enforcement Act of 2015, which would enhance the enforcement authority of the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to regulate and combat IUU fishing. “As a […]
Alaska State Troopers reported the closure of a Haines case involving the illegal killing of three Brown Bears with the conclusion of sentencing in the case on Friday. 23-year-old Dalton Huston of Haines was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 90 suspended, which he must serve immediately. Huston was also fined a total of […]