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 […]
The Alaska State Troopers Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs, (SEACAD) Unit in Ketchikan and troopers from that community’s post made the last of seizures in their drug investigation to intercept drugs bound for Alaska from Washington state on Sunday. During that latest seizure, 13.25 pounds of marijuana and 3.15 pounds of Hashish oil was seized […]