On September 24, 2019 an Anchorage jury convicted 36-year-old Jose Miguel Contreras Evangelista of multiple offenses stemming from an east Anchorage shooting incident in which he fired several gunshots into a neighbor’s trailer with a mother and three of her children inside. As officers were responding to reports of the initial shots, Evangelista fired additional […]
Bethel-based Alaska State Troopers revealed that they have made an arrest in the death investigation of 30-year-old Cheryl Sakar, who was found deceased at a Crooked Creek residence on the morning of September 9th. Troopers, as well as an investigator with the General Investigative Unit, responded to the scene to look into her death. Sakar’s […]
Troopers say a murder/attempted suicide in Akiachak remains under investigation with the suspect now in Seattle undergoing treatment for a shotgun blast on Friday night. According to the investigation into the Friday night rural incident, two brothers in that community, Tom and Robert Snyder, 36 and 32 respectively, reportedly got into an argument over alcohol […]
Alaska State Troopers announced on Tuesday that they made an arrest in the 1978 murder and sexual assault of 16-year-old Shelley Connolly. They report that they took into custody Gresham, Oregon man, 62-year-old Donald F McQuade and charged him with first and 2nd-degree murder. Connolly’s body was found near Beluga point next to the Seward […]