Anchorage police report that the stand-off between a burglar suspect and SWAT on the 6200-block of Petersburg Street just south of Dowling came to a close at 5:50 pm on Wednesday evening after he emerged from the building following less lethal and gas warnings were made by APD. The standoff began after APD was informed […]
Anchorage police responded to an address on the 4500-block of East 7th Avenue on Thursday night after receiving a report of shots-fired at that location. They would discover a female with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to her upper body that resulted in a perimeter being set up. When police responded at just after 9 pm, […]
Anchorage police report that they responded to an apartment complex on the 1400-block of West 27th Avenue at 3:23 pm on Tuesday afternoon after receiving a call from the apartment manager at that address reporting a serious disturbance. The manager reported that a resident there, identified as 41-year-old Benjamin F. Morris, had broken out two […]
While authorities as yet have not divulged the name of the suspect shot during a SWAT standoff in Eagle River, nor the names of the APD officers involved that opened fire on him, they have released additional details in the incident. APD reports that they responded to the 17400-block of Toakoana Drive at 5:47 […]
UPDATE: The SWAT standoff in Eagle River has since gone deadly on Thursday morning. According to APD the suspect was declared deceased at the scene after being shot by an officer. More information will soon follow in this developing situation. ORIGINAL: APD reports that SWAT is on scene at an Eagle River address after […]
Anchorage police revealed that an Eagle River suspect was taken into custody late Sunday night after a stand-off on the 14500-block of Don Circle after a DV Assault incident that occurred between the suspect and his girlfriend. APD responded to the incident location at 6:37 pm on Sunday evening after receiving the disturbance call […]
Anchorage police report that two persons were taken into custody following a barricade incident that resulted from a warrant service carried out by APD late on Wednesday night. Police attempted to carry out a warrant service on 28-year-old Val Tapusoa for a felony warrant at just after 11 pm on Wednesday night but instead of […]
This is what fascism looks like. It spares no one Part of Trump’s reelection strategy is to scare the white suburbs, which polls show have soured on him, with “urban” (read: minority) violence. This is clear from his current campaign ads, which try to paint the gentlemanly Joe Biden as a bomb thrower. It […]
On September 24, 2019 an Anchorage jury convicted 36-year-old Jose Miguel Contreras Evangelista of multiple offenses stemming from an east Anchorage shooting incident in which he fired several gunshots into a neighbor’s trailer with a mother and three of her children inside. As officers were responding to reports of the initial shots, Evangelista fired additional […]