An Aniak man is in jail on Murder and Attempted Murder charges after an extended shooting incident in that village early Sunday morning. Aniak-based Troopers were notified of a shooting in the community at 2:19 am on Sunday morning. Troopers took 29-year-old Joseph Patrick Yaska into custody. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation and the Bethel […]
Alaska State Troopers reported today on the trooper dispatch that Special Crimes investigators, the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit, and DEA special agents carried out a warrant at a residence on West 32nd Avenue in connection with a failure to comply in a 2006 case. Investigators with the agencies went to that address and served a […]
Anchorage police revealed that the three men implicated in the death of 28-year-old Philip Cleveland, formerly of Kotzebue, have been indicted by an Anchorage Grand Jury on Monday. APD reports that: 32 year old Bert Jones, Jr., originally from Kotzebue, was indicted on charges of murder in the first and second degree. 27 year old […]
After almost two weeks, the trial of Zachary Whisenhunt for Murder, that included ten days of testimony and two days of deliberation, a Fairbanks jury returned a verdict of guilty of Murder II against the defendant. On Tuesday afternoon, the jury announced that Whisenhunt was guilty on two counts of Murder II and one count […]