(Fairbanks, AK) – Tuesday, a Fairbanks jury found 23-year-old Joshua Bell guilty of two counts of Murder in the First Degree for the August 2022 murders of Ricardo Duperior and Rachel Wright. He was also convicted of Tampering with Physical Evidence and Solicitation of Murder in the First Degree. On Aug. 7, 2022, around 2:30 […]
(Bethel, AK) – On Wednesday, Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters sentenced 43-year-old John Japhet to 50 years with 15 years suspended for the 2022 stabbing death of Paul John in Bethel. Japhet will be on probation for 15 years upon his release from incarceration. On June 6, 2022, after a night of drinking, Japhet entered […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Monday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Patricia Haines sentenced 22-year-old Jason Alvarez to 60 years with 15 years suspended for the murder of 25-year-old Chase Shank in Nov. 2022. On Nov. 7, 2022, Shank and Alvarez were at Lonnie Dorton’s home on Washington Drive in Fairbanks. Alvarez had expressed jealousy over Dorton’s male friends […]
ICE is preparing to deport an exonerated man to a country he hasn’t set foot in since he was nine months old, his family alleges A man who spent more than four decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was finally freed earlier this month—only to get immediately apprehended and detained by federal […]