JUNEAU – The Alaska Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 12, sponsored by Senator Jesse Kiehl (D-Juneau). Senate Bill 12 lets sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, along with peace and correctional officers, keep their address confidential from public records. Currently, forty-one states provide address protection for victims. Senate Bill 12 requires the State of Alaska […]
The Anchorage Police Department announced on Thursday that a cold case involving a 1995 sexual assault was sent to a Grand Jury after an untested sexual assault test kit was analyzed and got a positive match. An Anchorage Grand Jury indicted 51-year-old Ronald Wade Fischer following an investigation into the rape of a 17-year-old teen […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge William Morse sentenced 59-year-old Allen Hiratsuka to 16 years with three years suspended and 13 years to serve for the crime of sexual assault in the second degree. Hiratsuka was convicted by an Anchorage jury on Nov. 21, 2022, after a month-and-a-half long trial. The conviction relates to […]
On January 11th, New Stuyahok man, James Weedman entered a plea of guilty to Murder II and Sexual Assault II in the August 2020 death of 25-year-old Angelina Chunak. As a result of his guilty plea to the charges, Weedman faces between 40 and 80 years for the murder charge and a mandatory 10 years […]
