Defendant agreed to accept nearly half a million in bribes from a contractor in exchange for providing confidential bidding information about U.S. Department of Defense contracts FAIRBANKS – A former U.S. Air Force Contract Specialist assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A U.S. Army Alaska soldier died during an on-duty accident Monday, Jan. 23. The incident is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center. Spc. Karolina Ferrer-Padilla, 20, was an Army petroleum supply specialist with the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A U.S. Army Alaska soldier was found dead in his vehicle in Anchorage Sunday, Nov. 28. The cause of death is under investigation by the Anchorage Police Department and the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID). Foul play is not suspected. Sgt. Miles Jordan Tarron, 30, was […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — As the sun was setting across the Anbar Desert in December 2006, a Humvee gun truck driver spotted a slight glint strung across the road from a vehicle street side. The glint turned out to be a tripwire for a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, an all-too-common occurrence during the Iraq War. […]
