Anchorage, Alaska — Alaska’s Office of Veterans Affairs receives many walk-ins from service members, veterans, their families and the general public inquiring about benefits and anything to do with veteran services. They received a special walk-in last Friday when Private Tommy Heckman, his wife, Martina, and their daughter, Irene, stopped by the office in East […]
Following the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and the mandatory 72-hour waiting period on the release of names of officers involved in a shooting, Alaska State Troopers have made corrections to the initial report released by them on last Thursday and have also revealed the identities of those officers involved in the Pilot Station incident. The […]
A Pilot Station man is dead after an exchange of fire with Southcentral SERT in the woods around Pilot Station on Thursday night, Alaska State Troopers report. 27-year-old Dwight Heckman of Pilot Station was located by SERT at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening after multiple encounters and the gunfire exchange took place. 50 minutes later SERT […]
Following an investigation by the Bethel Violent Offenders Unit, who responded to a fatal shooting in Pilot Station, they report that they have made an arrest in the case. Troopers received a report from the Village Public Safety Officer in Pilot Station, at approximately half-past midnight on Thursday morning, reporting that they had confirmed that […]