(Anchorage, AK) – Last week, Superior Court Judge Peter Ramgren sentenced Donteh Devoe, 42, to serve 25 years in custody for one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree. After serving his period of incarceration, Devoe will be on felony probation for 10 years. Devoe pled guilty on Nov. 1, 2024, […]
(Bethel, AK) –Tuesday Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters sentenced 57-year-old Jeffrey Jackson of Searcy, Arkansas, to a composite sentence of 30 years with 15 years suspended and 15 years to serve for the crimes of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree and sexual assault in the first degree. This sentencing was a […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Former Alaska State Trooper Vance Peronto was convicted Friday of one count of attempted abuse of a minor in the second degree. The trial lasted a little over two weeks, and the jury deliberated for approximately two and a half days before returning a guilty verdict. The jury was unable to reach a […]
(Anchorage, AK) – An Anchorage grand jury indicted 52-year-old Lawrence Andrew Lekanoff on two counts of sexual abuse of a minor on Feb. 23. Lekanoff is charged with sexually abusing a five-year-old child in an Anchorage park in 1994. The Anchorage Police Department investigated the case in 1994; efforts to identify a suspect were unsuccessful […]