(Anchorage, AK) – On August 31, 2021, Anchorage Correctional Officer Joseph Tavai was charged with one count of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree and one count of promoting contraband in the first degree. These charges stem from an investigation based on a tip from an inmate at the Anchorage Correctional Complex – […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified at 3:17 am on Saturday that a suspect was “observed taking a large stack of mail into a rented U-Haul pickup truck from mailboxes on Chena Hot Springs Road,” troopers reported. Due to that alert reporting people stealing items in the area, AST located the U-Haul and initiated a traffic […]
An Anchorage police officer on patrol on 5th Avenue on Monday spotted a green 2001 Subaru Impreza he believed to be the vehicle that had been stolen from the 1100-block of 11th Avenue 10 days prior. The officer had observed the vehicle as it pulled into a business parking lot on the 600-block of Fifth […]
Anchorage police report that they took an Anchorage man into custody on forgery and other charges after he attempted to cash a stolen check at the First National Bank on 36th Avenue on Monday afternoon. An employee at FNBA called Anchorage dispatch at 4:32 pm on Monday and informed them that a man had come […]
Multiple calls began streaming in to the Anchorage police on Wednesday night reporting two different vehicles in the ditch along the Glenn Highway near the Fort Rich exit. Then at 9:31 pm, another call was fielded, this time from a woman reporting that she had been hit by another vehicle causing her to crash into […]
Alaska State Troopers announced on their dispatch Monday that an Anchorage Grand Jury has indicted 35-year-old Sarah Dayan of Homer for Murder in the First Degree, Murder in the Second Degree (Intend Serious Injury), Murder in the Second Degree (Extreme Indifference), Vehicle theft in the First Degree x2, and Tampering with Physical Evidence on […]
It was announced that the suspect in the shooting of Willard Outwater on August 19th of this year, has been indicted by an Anchorage Grand Jury on one count of first-degree assault, one count of second-degree assault, one count of third-degree assault, and one count of evidence tampering. The suspect, 21-year-old Shaun Johnson Jr, was […]
An Anchorage DUI driver responsible for a multiple vehicle collision attempted to give police the slip but was caught after climbing into his vehicle and driving away from the scene on Wednesday morning. APD was notified of a hit and run collision at 1:29 am on Wednesday morning by one of the victims who […]