A Klawock Sport Charter Captain forfeited his vessel and trailer to the state after repeated violations spanning the last three years during sentencing in the Prince of Wales court on Monday. 75-year-old Stuart Merchant pleaded guilty to four wildlife crimes in court after a three day investigation that charged him with Unsworn Falsification and violating […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Ketchikan seized five dozen dungeness crab potsfrom the Carrol Inlet area for various fisheries violations, the trooper dispatch revealed on Tuesday. Following the February 28th closure of the Southeast Alaska Dungeness season, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, while patrolling the inlet, on March 1st and 10th, pulled 60 Dungeness pots “that were found […]
Alaska State Troopers contacted a 20-year-old Anchorage man in St Marys when the flight made a stop-over there on its way from Anchorage to Alakanuk on Wednesday, the trooper dispatch reported. Troopers stopped Joey Buster during a scheduled lay-over in St Mary after receiving a report of alcohol importation from the airlines. Troopers believe that […]
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) reminds travellers transiting through Canada to and from Alaska to declare any firearms in their possession to a CBSA officer when entering Canada. Failure to declare firearms may result in criminal prosecution in a court of law. Last year, CBSA officers in Western Canada seized 297 undeclared firearms, and […]