Troopers traveled to Shungnak to investigate a case of a seven-year-old Shungnak child who died from a gunshot wound on Thursday. Troopers were notified by the Shungnak VPSO of an incident involving seven-year-old child, Stanley Custer, on Wednesday at approximately 9:57 pm. A medevac was initiated at that time, but the child died at about midnight […]
With temperatures dipping to almost -30 degrees F, a Northwest Arctic Borough Village Public Safety Officer in Shungnak received a call-in of a female lying motionless in the snow. The officer responded to the area near the Shungnak Post Office to find a Shungnak resident, 38-year-old Elaine Tickett highly intoxicated and unable to stand in […]
A Shungnak woman was arrested on Murder charges Wednesday after an early Christmas Eve dispute turned deadly and 25-year-old Emmalee Clark shot her cousin 33-Jeanelle Clark with a pistol, according to court documents. Those documents stated that E. Clark shot J. Clark after a physical dispute in which J. Clark told her cousin to leave the four-plex […]
On Saturday morning in the small community of Shungnak, the VPSO of the village arrested a 24-year-old woman on charges of being intoxicated and refusing a PBT in violation of her felony conditions of release on original charges of Importation of Alcohol. The VPSO arrested and handcuffed the woman, Florence Douglas, and began transporting her […]