FAIRBANKS – Jared Wilkes Post, 26, of Fairbanks was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 78 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay at least $100,000 in restitution for defrauding banks and other victims of over $100,000 through a sophisticated check kiting and identity theft scheme. According to court documents, between […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On Dec. 1, 2022, Superior Court Judge Kevin M. Saxby sentenced Anchorage resident Sephan James Allen to 21 years in prison for a string of armed robberies that took place in 2019 and 2020 between Anchorage, Chugiak, Eagle River, and Palmer. Allen pleaded guilty to consolidated counts of first-degree robbery and consolidated counts […]
Defendants brutally beat victim to near death and put him in a metal dog kennel which they loaded into a person’s truck at gunpoint. ANCHORAGE – A second Anchorage man was sentenced late Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and drug trafficking. According to court documents, […]
“There should be no exceptions to a ban on slavery,” said Democratic U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley following passage of Measure 112 in Oregon. Voters in Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, and Vermont approved ballot measures Tuesday that would bar forced labor as punishment for those convicted of crimes in those states—an effort to close what some characterize as […]