(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, an Anchorage jury convicted 34-year-old Phillip Maxwel Barger of one count of Second-Degree Murder, one count of Manslaughter, one count of Burglary, and one count of Fourth-Degree Assault for murdering 88-year-old Francisco “Frank” Martin Jr. on July 1, 2023. At trial, the evidence showed that Phillip Barger entered the home of […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Brent Bennett sentenced 47-year-old Anthony Peterson to 30 years of active incarceration for the murder of 18-year-old Brett Allen. On Jan. 14, 2021, Peterson fatally shot Brett Allen. In May of 2024, a Fairbanks jury found Peterson guilty of Murder in the Second Degree and rejected Peterson’s self-defense […]
(Juneau, AK) – On Sept. 13, 2024, Superior Court Judge Phillip Pallenberg sentenced 47-year-old Sonya H. Taton to 50 years in prison for murdering a boyfriend in 2019 and stabbing another boyfriend in 2016. Taton was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and Assault in the First Degree following a multi-week trial that concluded […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 24-year-old Caleb Allen Russell Leyland of Anchorage was sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson for the murder of Cynthia Hoffman near Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, Alaska, on June 2, 2019. Leyland previously pleaded guilty to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. Evidence presented at sentencing shows that […]