A Saturday night traffic stop on the Sterling Highway ended in death for a Sterling motorist after being fired on by the arresting trooper, the trooper dispatch revealed this weekend. Troopers report that an Alaska State Trooper pulled over 49-year-old Sterling resident Jon Ployhar on a routine traffic stop at mile 82 of the Sterling […]
The man, 19-year-old Tristan Vent, who was involved in an officer-involved shooting in Fairbanks last Tuesday, has succumbed to his injuries sustained during that incident, trooper dispatch revealed this morning. The 19-year-old Galena man was the subject of an attempted traffic stop at approximately 9:30 am on September 9th, after troopers observed that he was driving […]
