Dozens of Alaska Villages Have No Police At All Dozens of Alaska communities still have no police to protect their residents. “Every community deserves public safety. Letting a criminal assault community members, with no protection from any police officer isn’t justice, it’s negligence,” said Mike Williams, Sr. and Les Gara in a joint statement today. “All Alaskans […]
(Anchorage) – Assigning more troopers to communities in Alaska is a goal of Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and James Cockrell, the Commissioner of Public Safety. Seventeen new positions for State Troopers and 10 for Village Public Safety Officers are in Governor Dunleavy’s budget. On FirstHand, the podcast, Commissioner Cockrell says the Governor’s budget proposes the […]
A caller in Anchor Point called in reporting that their vehicle, a 2018 silver Subaru, had been stolen at approximately 4 am on Monday. That very vehicle almost hit two troopers who had a vehicle pulled over in a DUI investigation at mile 102.5 of the Sterling Highway a few minutes later. The near-miss was […]
After seeing a silver Ford Taurus hit the guardrail near mile 27 of the Glenn Highway, a trooper elected to attempt a traffic stop on Wednesday night. Instead of pulling over for the trooper, the driver of the Ford, later identified as Marlene Ahnupkana, age 34 of Anchorage, attempted to elude the officer. Troopers say […]