(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore met with reporters to discuss how the Office of Special Prosecutions in the Alaska Law Department reviews officer-involved shooting cases. There have been nine officer-involved shootings in Alaska in 2024, five of them in Anchorage since May. “The Office of Special Prosecutions’ review of use-of-deadly-force incidents […]
The Anchorage Police Department reports that the fatal shooting of a female suspect at a 20th Avenue address on Wednesday is now being investigated as an OIS. APD Special Operations, including SWAT and a Crisis Negotiation Team responded to the 7400-block of 20th Avenue at 4:39 pm on Wednesday after receiving a disturbance call at […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage Police Department officer was convicted of 24 criminal counts Thursday for his participation in a scheme to defraud a corporation of millions of dollars. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Nathan Michael Keays, 44, was friends with a ConocoPhillips employee, Forrest Wright, 44. The two conspired to […]
Alaska State Troopers report that a Chefornak man was fatally shot by a Tribal Police Officer in that southwest Alaska village early Saturday morning. The Tribal Police Officers called in a reported that Christopher Wasili, 39, of Chefornak had opened fire on one of the officers with a rifle just after midnight Saturday. The officer […]