(Homer, AK) – Last week, Superior Court Judge Bride Seifert sentenced Allen Gonzalez, 29, to 29 years in prison for sexual assault. Judge Seifert ordered a composite sentence of 53 years with an active term of imprisonment of 29 years and 2 days, with all the remaining time, approximately 24 years, suspended. Upon his release […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A California drug supplier was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his connection to the fatal fentanyl overdose of a Fairbanks man in October 2020. Junior Gafatasi Tulali, 48, was convicted by a federal jury of distributing fentanyl resulting in death with an enhanced statutory penalty on April 19, 2024. According […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Brent Bennett sentenced 47-year-old Anthony Peterson to 30 years of active incarceration for the murder of 18-year-old Brett Allen. On Jan. 14, 2021, Peterson fatally shot Brett Allen. In May of 2024, a Fairbanks jury found Peterson guilty of Murder in the Second Degree and rejected Peterson’s self-defense […]
(Juneau, AK) – On Sept. 13, 2024, Superior Court Judge Phillip Pallenberg sentenced 47-year-old Sonya H. Taton to 50 years in prison for murdering a boyfriend in 2019 and stabbing another boyfriend in 2016. Taton was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and Assault in the First Degree following a multi-week trial that concluded […]