UPDATE: Ground searchers dispatched from Nome were able to locate the two men. THey were sheltered in a shelter cabin on Thursday. The National Guard Blackhawk helicopter rendezvoused to their location and transported them back to Nome. ORIGINAL: Alaska State Troopers report that the search for two Brevig Mission travelers is continuing today after Wednesday’s […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with three crewmembers and one paramedic responded to a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers to search for two snowmachiners whom activated a distress beacon late Friday night. The Alaska State Troopers received a call from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center in response to […]
A search and rescue operation between Deering and Nome ended successfully after an approximately 12-hour search between the communities, troopers revealed in the trooper dispatch. According to the report, troopers and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Office were informed of an overdue traveller, identified as 34-year-old Ingram Melton, who had not shown up […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on Wednesday that they had arrested a Kotzebue-born man on Sexual Abuse of a Minor charges for incidences that occurred in the community of Wales. It was on August 22nd, that troopers received reports of sexual abuse of a minor from Wales. Troopers responded and conducted an investigation that revealed that 43-year-old […]