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 […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued four men, ages 18 to 26, after their plane went down at the toe of Skilak Glacier last night. The pilot of the downed Cessna 172 aircraft texted family to request help and they notified the Alaska […]
A Kasilof man is in custody with no bail after a foot chase with Alaska State Troopers last night. 57-year-old Kasilof resident Dennis Poston was apprehended after AST responded to the scene of an accident on Monday night at 8:14 pm on Cardwell Road. It was determined that as 50-year-old Jaqueline Dederick was traveling in […]
It was on Sunday night at approximately 10:25pm that several calls came in to the troopers to report a REDDI driver on a motorcycle on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway near Trunk Road. But, five minutes later, before officers could respond, another call came in to report a crash between a motorcycle and a Pontiac Grand Am. […]