The defendant was arrested and deported to the U.S. in 2021. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The leader of an extensive transnational drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Wednesday for running a conspiracy that trafficked vast amounts of dangerous drugs to Alaska. According to court documents, Miguel Baez Guevara, a.k.a. “Javi,” 41, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. According to court documents, Peter Joseph Hickel Jr., 34, used social media to communicate with and attempt to meet an individual that he believed to be a 12-year-old girl […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 24-year-old Caleb Allen Russell Leyland of Anchorage was sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson for the murder of Cynthia Hoffman near Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, Alaska, on June 2, 2019. Leyland previously pleaded guilty to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. Evidence presented at sentencing shows that […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Indiana man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison and life on supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to produce child sexual abuse materials. According to court documents, Darin Schilmiller, 26, and his co-conspirator Denali Brehmer, 24, conspired to murder Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 while Schilmiller was […]