Date: February 25, 2021 Time: Noon – 1:00 PM Topic:Update on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Location:Facebook Live Join us on February 25, 2021 for a Native Issues Forum to hear a report on what is being done on the federal, state and tribal levels to address the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women crisis […]
Anchorage, Alaska – United States Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Alaska’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Pilot Project (Pilot Project) today. The Pilot Project, in accordance with the Justice Department’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative, and in furtherance of and Savanna’s Act, implements tailored Tribal Community Response Plans (TCRP) in select pilot sites. A […]
Alaska State Troopers say that after exhaustive efforts they have called off the search for Ian Michael Lutz, who disappeared around the first of the month in Chitina near the Chitina Village Apartments. AST utilized drone imagery, K9 search teams from MATSAR and Helo 3 to search for Lutz who was reported missing after his […]
AST revealed that five Chignik Lake residents were rescued while one body was recovered and one remains missing after a tragic Saturday afternoon incident there. At 3:16 pm on Saturday afternoon, Fairbanks troopers were alerted that a skiff with three aboard had capsized while transporting a snow machine on its bow after encountering a wave […]
Nome police announced on Sunday that a vehicle and its driver who they sought for information they may have in connection with the disappearance of Florence Okpealuk, age 33, has been located. Okpealuk has been missing since August 31. She was last seen on West Beach that day. She is described as standing 5’2″ […]
Fairbanks troopers and PAWS continue to search for a missing Nenana man who was reported missing on Monday when he didn’t return from Fairbanks as planned. AST in Fairbanks was notified at 10:04 pm on Monday that 69-year-old Frank Minano was overdue and the caller was concerned with his disappearance as he has medical […]
Alaska State Troopers say that a search initiated on Sunday afternoon for a Bethel man in the Talkeetna area is ongoing with no results as of yet. Troopers were notified that 55-year-old Alexander Guest left his residence at approximately 2:30 pm on Saturday afternoon to go looking for Chaga mushrooms in the woods near […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Tuesday the appointment of E. Ingrid Cumberlidge to serve as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Coordinator for the District of Alaska. As the District of Alaska’s MMIP Coordinator, Ms. Cumberlidge will gather reliable data to identify MMIP cases connected to Alaska; conduct outreach with […]
After a five-year investigation, troopers report that the case of missing Big Lake man, Daniel Roy Buckwalter has finally been solved and the main suspect in the case is in custody. Buckwalter was last known to be alive on August 4th, 2015, and was reported missing on August 12th of that year. It was […]