(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 […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Last week, Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby sentenced Brian Steven Smith, 53, to 226 years in prison for the murders of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk. Smith was convicted in February of 14 counts including two counts of Murder in the First Degree. A jury also found him guilty of Sexual Assault […]