A former resident of Ketchikan has pled guilty to Lacy Act violations in connection to illegally purchased halibut in 2012 and 2013. It was announced by United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler this week that a former resident of Ketchikan, Donald Ray Thornlow, pled guilty to ” commercially purchasing halibut that was caught for subsistence […]
Nine people, eight of whom were passengers on the Holland America Cruise ship Westerdam are dead in a crash of a de Havilland Otter operated by Promech Air in the Ella Lake area troopers report. A call went in to Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers at 2:06 pm on Thursday reporting an overdue aircraft. A Temsco helicopter […]
Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers impounded a vehicle after stopping the driver for driving a vehicle without its rear license plate displayed after more serious violations were discovered, the trooper dispatch reported on Friday. Troopers stopped the 1985 Ford F-150 on the South Tongass Highway on Thursday and contacted the driver, who they identified as 51-year-old […]
Alaska State Troopers are calling a shooting that occurred in Ketchikan on Sunday evening probably accidental according to the trooper dispatch, but the investigation into the incident is ongoing. Alaska State Troopers received a call at 7:41 pm on Sunday evening reporting that 22-year-old Samson Mullenax had been shot while at the gravel pit off […]