JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Response and recovery efforts continue this week in Tuluksak after the community’s water plant was destroyed in a fire last month. Personnel from the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs visited Tuluksak Monday and Tuesday. The department’s tribal liaison and an emergency management specialist met with local leaders to […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Native Village of Tuluksak’s water treatment plant and washeteria were destroyed by a fire on Jan. 16, 2021. The facility was the only source of potable water in the community. On January 21st, the community issued a local disaster declaration and requested state assistance. Currently, residents of Tuluksak have […]
Searchers downstream from Tuluksak continue to search for one snowmachiner on the Kuskokwim River after an incident there on Friday evening. Troopers were notified of the incident by Bethel Search and Rescue on Saturday morning of the search for two snowmachiners that were observed driving into a hole in the ice on the river at […]
Alaska State Troopers are wanting to speak with any persons that had contact with 18-year-old Karol Alexie on Friday night or during the early morning of Saturday prior to her being found unresponsive on Saturday morning. Bethel-based Troopers were informed at 1:18 am on Saturday morning that Alexie was deceased in the village of Tuluksak. […]
(Bethel, AK) John Paul Donald Douglas was sentenced Tuesday in Bethel to ten years imprisonment with six years suspended and four years to serve after pleading guilty to a consolidated count of possession of child pornography. On May 8, 2017 investigators with the Technical Crimes Unit of the Alaska Bureau of Investigation were conducting a […]
A burglary and theft at the post office in Tuluksak on Friday prompted an investigation by Alaska State troopers that led to the arrest of one 34-year-old man the very same day, troopers revealed. The incident occurred late Thursday night or early Friday morning, and it was discovered and reported to AST at 1 PM that day. Troopers […]
A 7th grade teacher at the Yupiit School District was arrested following a nine-count indictment handed down by a grand jury. Prosecutors asked the public to help them locate 37-year-old John Paul Donald Douglas following the issuing of a $50,000 plus court-approved third party custodian warrant as a result of that indictment. The Alaska Bureau […]
At approximately 9 pm on Wednesday reports of an active shooter came in to the Bethel-based State Troopers. The caller reported that a Tuluksak man was armed with a 20 gauge shotgun and had shot several people. Trooper dispatch states that 20-year-old Gerald Lamont had initially shot a family member in the face with a […]
Early Sunday morning, the Alaska State Troopers in Bethel received a call from Tuluksak that a neighbor had been banging on the door of the caller’s residence trying to gain entry for the past two hours. The caller reported that they had barricaded the door to prevent the intruder from gaining entry. After receiving the […]