Skagway man, 67-year-old James Terrance Williams, owner of Inside Passage Arts is the target of a 10-count federal indictment it was revealed on Friday morning. According to U.S. Attorney Byran Schoder, Williams was indicted by a federal grand jury for Lacey Act violations of smuggling walrus ivory into the U.S., sales of smuggled walrus ivory, and […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on Monday that a call came in reporting that a local fisherman from Toksook Bay, one of the three villages on the Bering Sea island of Nelson Island found a body floating at sea. The body found approximately 1/2 mile from shore off of the island is believed to be a male. […]
United States Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that James Markus Harries, a/k/a “James Harris,” 33, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve 110 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. Harries previously pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2018, to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances […]
The search for a southwest Alaska man who was reported overdue by his family on Sunday afternoon is continuing. 26-year-old Jazmin James took off on a snowmachine on Saturday from Nunapitchuk bound for Tununak. Residents in Nightmute were the last to see him when he made a brief stop there before continuing on to Toksook Bay and […]