[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Anchorage woman who smuggled the synthetic opioid fentanyl into the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center as an inmate in October of 2017 was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline in federal court, it was announced by U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroeder in a press release on Wednesday. 37-year-old Dorothy Elizabeth Lantz was sentenced to […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] multi-pronged crackdown on the press continued throughout 2018, the Committee to Protect Journalists concludes in a report published Thursday. Imprisonment, intimidation and allegations that journalists produce “fake news” surged in 2016, when U.S. President Donald Trump won the election, CPJ found. Trump has been a vocal critic of the press, often chastising journalists as “very dishonest people.” […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) On November 15, 2018, an Anchorage jury found Phillip Eugene Bigham guilty of seven counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree. The jury also convicted Bigham, 50, of solicitation and attempted escape in the fourth degree. Bigham worked as a Juvenile Justice Officer at the McLaughlin Youth Center, […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nchorage man, Sergio Jauna Devoe, age 28, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and eight years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess for trafficking drugs on Wednesday after previously pleading guilty to the charges, DoJ revealed. The case was initiated after an encounter between Devoe and APD’s Community Action Policing […]