Pilot Station Man Dead Following Exchange of Fire with SERT

Pilot Station Man Dead Following Exchange of Fire with SERT

A Pilot Station man is dead after an exchange of fire with Southcentral SERT in the woods around Pilot Station on Thursday night, Alaska State Troopers report. 27-year-old Dwight Heckman of Pilot Station was located by SERT at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening after multiple encounters and the gunfire exchange took place. 50 minutes later SERT […]

Troopers Capture Idaho Fugitive from Justice During Traffic Accident Investigation

At 11:30 am, as Fairbanks-based troopers were conducting a follow-up investigation on Prospect Drive into a vehicle collision that occurred earlier Tuesday morning, they found that one of the drivers in the incident was 41-year-old Kelo Smoke, who was a fugitive from Justice in the state of Idaho. The  officers could see Smoke inside of […]

Seward Highway Closed Down As Authorities Searched for Suspect Monday

Seward Highway Closed Down As Authorities Searched for Suspect Monday

At approximately 8 am on Monday morning, troopers received a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) on a pickup truck near Portage south of Girdwood. The caller reported that the pickup was driving erratically, and also reported that the driver “had wrecked at more than one location along the highway, south of Girdwood.” Nine minutes […]