(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska State Troopers will have an increased presence on Alaska roadways on April 20th as they look for drivers impaired by intoxicating substances, including marijuana. Throughout the day drivers should expect to see additional Troopers conducting focused patrols for unsafe drivers across the state. “Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol […]
A Big Lake man is home safe and sound following an incident near Flat Lake on Sunday evening. At 6:46 pm on Sunday, Alaska State Troopers in Mat-Su received a call from 54-year-old Howard Harold. He reported that he got lost as he was going to his cabin and had frostbitten feet and was suffering […]
Alaska State Trooper intercepted a Ketchikan woman in the parking lot of the Ketchikan International Airport after receiving a drug tip on Friday according to their report. 26-year-old Jamie Cox was contacted by troopers and detained after the tip that she was transporting drugs into the community. The subsequent search of her person would turn […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the prisoner who shot a Nunapitchuk Village Police Officer on Tuesday afternoon is in custody and has been charged with a multitude of counts that include Attempted Murder I, Assault I, Assault II, Assault III, Escape I, Misconduct Involving a Weapon III, Misconduct Involving a Weapon IV, and Misconduct Involving […]
March 16, 2021 (Anchorage, AK) — Alaska State Troopers will be out in force on St. Patrick’s Day looking for intoxicated and dangerous drivers across Alaska’s roadways. While a lot has changed over the last year, the penalties, and dangers of operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or other impairing substances such […]
A response by Soldotna-based troopers to a suspicious person report from a Nikiski area neighborhood resulted in an arrest for charges that included burglary troopers report. On Sunday, troopers received a suspicious person report and traveled to Nikiski to investigate. As they investigated the report, they became aware that a home in the neighborhood had […]
A call went in to Fairbanks dispatch on Thursday night at 10:30 pm reporting that a vehicle that had been stolen at gunpoint in the days prior had been seen near Davis Road in Fairbanks. Troopers immediately responded to the location, spotted the vehicle, and attempted to pull it over. Instead of pulling over, the […]
On Wednesday night at 8:15 pm, troopers with the Criminal Suppression Unit in Wasilla pulled over a vehicle on Old Matanuska Road in a traffic stop that resulted in a passenger being arrested on warrants. Troopers made contact with a front seat passenger, who feigned autism in an effort to avoid arrest. But, unfortunately for […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Alaska State Troopers are pulling diaper duty. Recently the need for diapers in rural Alaska was brought to the attention of Captain Ronald Wall of the Troopers Interior detachment based in Fairbanks. Captain Wall, with the assistance of a third-party vendor, contacted diaper distributors to see what could be done to broker […]