The Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad notified the Alaska State Troopers of a spot beacon activation on Sunday afternoon at 1:17 pm from the Fish Creek camping area. According to the trooper dispatch on Monday, the beacon activation originated at the camping area in Thorne Bay approximately 18 miles to the east of Ketchikan. The rescue […]
On Sunday night in Ketchikan, the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs Task Force made an arrest in connection with Oxycodone smuggling. It was reported by troopers that at 10:28 pm Sunday, the SEACAD Task Force, with the assistance of K-9 “Lutri,” arrested 32-year-old Terra Adams on charges of Conspiracy to Commit […]
An Alabama man was taken into custody early Sunday after he barricaded himself into a residence near mile six of the South Tongass highway prior to barricading himself in the home he had been burglarizing it. 32-year-old Alabama man Richard Wilson had broken into a residence in Ketchikan and was in the process of burglarizing the […]
A Saxman man was arrested after becoming combative with Ketchikan Medical staff following an assault on Eagle Avenue in Saxman late Saturday night. 25-year-old Gary Weston was contacted at a residence on Eagle Avenue at 11:33 pm on Saturday night after a report was made to troopers of an assault in progress there. The trooper […]