Flags will be lowered to half mast on Friday and will remain so until Sunday as ordered by Alaska’s governor, Sean Parnell, who made the announcement on Monday. The flags will be lowered to honor Sgt Patrick Johnson and Trooper Gabriel Rich, who were shot in the village of Tanana while responding to a call […]
As the community of Tanana continues to wrestle with the issues surrounding the deaths of two Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers, the tribal council in the community has voted on a lifetime ban from the village of two men who had an indirect role in the killings. The tribal council voted to ban for life the […]
20-year-old Tanana resident, the accused killer of two Alaska State Troopers, Nathanial Kangas was arraigned in Fairbanks on Saturday afternoon. He was arraigned in a courtroom filled with law enforcement. At arraignment, N. Kangas pled “Not Guilty,” to two counts of Murder I, and one count of Assault III. He was appointed a Public Defender, and his […]
Very little information is being provided concerning the incident in Tanana that took the lives of two Alaska State Troopers. identified as Sgt. Patrick “Scott” Johnson and Trooper Gabriel “Gabe” Rich, at shortly after 3pm Thursday afternoon. Both troopers were based out of the Fairbanks Unit. AST states in the dispatch that two troopers, Johnson and […]