(Fairbanks, AK) – Wednesday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Kirk Schwalm sentenced 34-year-old Devin Wright, Sr. to 82 years imprisonment for convictions relating to the sexual abuse of a minor in 2021 and 2022. Wright was tried in March 2025 on allegations that he sexually abused the preteen granddaughter of his girlfriend over many months. The […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – On January 13, 2026, Martin Hietala, 42, was sentenced to 34 years for the 2018 kidnapping and assault of a woman in a Fairbanks hotel room. On July 15, 2018, Mr. Hietala restrained victim J.B. in a Fairbanks hotel room and repeatedly strangled her, twice to unconsciousness, while he interrogated her about spying […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Judge Superior Court Jack McKenna sentenced Karl Marx Thomas, 41, to 15 years in jail for strangling his girlfriend to unconsciousness in December 2023, after she called police seeking help to leave their shared Eagle River residence. During the assault, Thomas caused an orbital hemorrhage, broke her nose, and left her […]
(Juneau, AK) – Wednesday, 46-year-old Andre Lawrence was sentenced by Juneau Superior Court Judge Amy Mead for the murder of 23-year-old James Newman Jr. on July 6, 2023. Lawrence previously pled guilty to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. Pursuant to the agreement of the parties, Lawrence was sentenced to 60 years with […]