(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced 37-year-old Michael Drost to 40 years with 15 years suspended, for a total 25 years of active jail time to serve with 10 years of probation to follow, for the murder of Dwayne English on December 18, 2018. Drost was found guilty by a jury on […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – On Wednesday, Judge Amy Welch sentenced 31-year-old Kelly Sweetsir of Fairbanks to 45 years imprisonment for murdering his estranged girlfriend in August of 2019. Judge Welch also imposed an additional fifteen years of suspended time that Mr. Sweetsir could potentially serve should he ever be released and violate the terms of his probation. […]
AST received a call reporting a fatal shooting in the community of Alakanuk early in the morning on Tuesday. As a result of the 1:03 am call, troopers from nearby Emmonak responded and opened a preliminary investigation. Upon arrival, 20-year-old Kobe Cook was found dead at the local clinic from multiple gunshot wounds. The Alaska […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Monday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced 22-year-old Anthony Raymond Salazar and 26-year-old Haitim Mahir Taha for the April 7, 2017, murder of Leroy Lawrence in Anchorage. Both defendants pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault for the April 7, 2017, drive-by shooting in […]