Considering recent events and community concerns, I wanted you to know the Anchorage Police Department (APD) is taking proactive steps to monitor events and information sources involving hate-based threats that may lead to violence. It’s a coordinated effort with our federal and state law enforcement partners. Although there are no specific threats in Anchorage […]
The United States and North Korea are resorting to alluded threats of force ahead of Pyongyang’s end-of-year deadline for progress with nuclear negotiations. Pak Jong Chon, head of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), threatened to reciprocate any U.S. military action with force in a statement he made to North Korean state media Wednesday. The statement […]
U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder, with the US Justice Department, announced that the Anchorage man who was convicted of eight counts of Threatening Interstate Communications was sentenced on Tuesday in front of Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess. Tyler Chance Bateman, age 29, was convicted after the jury at his trial deliberated for less […]
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ocial media posts on Sunday prompted School Resource Officers to investigate the possibility of threats to the Begich Middle School and the Anchorage School District. The media posts, on SnapChat were shared between ASD students and reported to School Resource Officers several times. SRO investigated the posts and determined that there was no immediate danger to […]
APD reports that a teen that had made terroristic threats to East High students on Wednesday has been turned over to the McLaughlin Youth Center and charges have been filed with the Department of Juvenile Justice. At 7:25 am on Wednesday students attending East High in Anchorage contacted the school’s resource officer and reported the […]
An Anchorage teen who attended Dimond High was arrested following threats made on a school bus on Tuesday, APD revealed on Wednesday. According to the preliminary investigation, a student who had become unruly on the bus on Tuesday. After the bus driver addressed the student’s behavior, “the student became agitated and threatened to shoot up the school […]
APD has made an arrest in the school bus collision that occurred at 36th and Upland Drive at 8:53 am Wednesday after setting up a perimeter around the surrounding area. Police spoke with the driver of the school bus who reported to police that the other driver, who was later identified as 38-year-old David A. Lee, […]
A Wiseman resident was sentenced to two years in prison last week after an August guilty plea in relation to two counts of threatening to assault federal officers, the Department of Justice announced. Following his release from prison, 52-year-old Jay Rolf Armstrong was ordered to be subject to one year of supervised release and to […]
THE PENTAGON — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued a warning to North Korea, saying that any attempt to launch missiles at U.S. soil “could escalate into war very quickly.” “If they do that, it’s game on,” Mattis told Pentagon reporters during an impromptu briefing late Monday. “You don’t shoot at people in this world unless […]