An 18-count indictment, that included conspiracy, theft of mail, credit card fraud, bank fraud, counterfeit securities, aggravated identity theft, trafficking in methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of firearms, was handed down by an Anchorage Grand Jury against 45-year-old Jonathan Ortiz Escalante, on Monday according to U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler. His co-conspirators were also […]
The U.S. Attorney’s office announced on Monday, the indictment of an Anchorage Woman on 28 counts of Making False Tax Claims. 58-year-old Pepe Anetipa, who moved from American Samoa in July of 2011, would move ahead quickly with her alleged scheme. Anetipa obtained a business license in the state just seven months after her arrival […]
Alaska State Troopers report that an investigation initiated in September in cooperation with ATF resulted in several sizable heroin busts in the last three months. The investigation also culminated in two indictments for distribution and conspiracy. Within a month of the onset of the investigation, troopers seized 48 grams of heroin it, as reported in the trooper dispatch. […]
A Wasilla man was arrested on a warrant for Child Pornography and remanded to the Anchorage Jail with his bail set at $50,000 on Monday. 47-year-old Conrad Wade Thomas was arrested after a Grand Jury handed down a 17 count indictment on Thursday that “included five counts of Distribution of Child Pornography, seven counts of Possession of Child […]