On Wednesday, Sand Point fisherman, 42-year-old Duke Ogata was arrested at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and charged with Assault III, Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance II, and Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance III after being shot 10 days earlier by Sand Point police Chief Benjamin Allen, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Troopers […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The Office of Special Prosecutions completed its review of an officer-involved shooting from Feb. 24, 2025, involving Akugaq Leavitt and North Slope Borough Police Department (NSBPD) Officers Donovan Chappell, John-Ashton Swope, and Mark Pelia in Utqiagvik. The review determined that Officer Chappell was justified in his use of deadly force against Mr. Leavitt, […]
Four hours after the SS Admiral Evans left the port in Ketchikan and headed to Seattle on March 10th, a Greek man, Nick Demmar, while on Deck, fired eight rounds into the smoking room, wounding six. According to the reports at the time, Demmar had been going home after years in Alaska. The smokers in […]
On Monday the Alaska Bureau of Investigation was contacted by the North Slope Borough Police Department. The NSBPD reported that officers, while on a Domestic Disturbance call in Utqiagvik, shot and killed a suspect in that case. Police responded to a residence in that community on Monday morning and made contacted the suspect, 41-year-old Akugaq […]