Anchorage patrol officers responded to the 1700-0block of East 59th Avenue at 3:40 am in reference to a disturbance that would be elevated to a homicide investigation on Monday morning. When the officers arrived, they would discover an adult male shot in the upper chest. He would be declared deceased at the scene. The APD […]
On September 15, 2020, Anchorage Police was notified of a sexual assault perpetrated by 36-year-old Jason A. Karpinski. Special Victims Unit (SVU) detectives launched an investigation. As a result, an arrest warrant was obtained for Karpinski on March 16, 2021, for four counts of Sexual Assault II. That warrant was served on March 18, 2021; […]
Anchorage police are asking the public for information on a sexual assault suspect in the Mountain View area for an incident that occurred around 6 am on Wednesday morning. According to police reports, the suspect, described as a black male between the ages of 25-35 years old, and standing approximately 5’7″-5’9″ approached the victim outside […]
Alaska State Troopers and Deputy Fire Marshals report that two Chevak men are still missing and unaccounted for following a fire that completely destroyed the old school in that community early Monday morning. Troopers were made aware of the blaze at 9 am on Monday by the Chevak Village Police Officers. They reported to troopers […]
“If that is not suspicious, I don’t know what is. Somebody clearly knew something.” A Democratic congressman is demanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate a shady $54 million purchase of Oshkosh Corporation stock just hours before scandal-ridden Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced the decision to award that company with a lucrative 10-year contract to produce a new, largely gasoline-powered […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Agency for Global Media has released financial documents showing the agency’s Trump-appointed CEO paid an outside law firm more than $1 million for work that included investigating its own staff. In a statement Friday, USAGM said it has proactively released the first set of contracts and decision-making documents and would add […]
There was a continued police presence at the 200-block of Creekside Street on Sunday as APD officers investigated the scene there following a response to a deceased person reported there. APD patrol officers responded to the location after receiving a report of a body at 9:09 am on Sunday. Upon arrival, the patrol officers made […]
On Thursday morning AST released the names of the pilot and passenger who died in the crash of a Cessna 185 outside of Chitina near the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park following positive ID by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. Identified were 45-year-old Christopher Maize, of Glennallen/Anchorage, the pilot, and passenger 36-year-old Andrew Broders of […]
It was early this month that the Trooper’s Palmer Criminal Suppression Unit began a full-time investigation into the rash of thefts from vehicles at trailheads in the Mat-Su Valley. Then, on January 29th, troopers on patrol observed a woman near the Crevasse Moraine parking lot looking into vehicles. AST made contact with the female, who […]