(Mat-Su Valley, Alaska) – In October 2016, the ABI Technical Crimes Unit (TCU)/Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) conducted a proactive investigation online. Through their measures, the units identified an unknown suspect in Alaska regarding possession and distribution of child pornography. TCU and ICAC were able to subsequently identify the suspect through the internet […]
It was announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday that former Wrangell Doctor, 54-year-old Greg Alan Salard was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 years in federal prison for child pornography distribution charges. Salard was convicted in July of 2015 following a six-day trial for trading child pornography on a peer-to-peer network in […]
Charges continue to mount against the Soldotna Karate instructor, Michael Dean Hancock, after a Soldotna Grand Jury indicted Hancock on further charges of Sexual Abuse of a Minor I and II and three counts of Unlawful Exploitation of a Minor. These newest charges are added to the 13 counts he was indicted on in mid-January […]
A soldier stationed at Fort Wainwright, 28-year-old Stephen Michael St. Hilaire, was sentenced to 6 years in Federal prison for possession of child pornography by U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline on Tiesday, it was revealed by the Justice Department. The conviction and sentencing on the charges stems from an investigation carried out by […]