The U.S. Attorney’s office announced sentencing of a Bellingham skipper on Wednesday to Clean Water Act violations for unlawfully dumping a pollutant into Sumner Strait in southeast Alaska on June 15th, 2017 while enroute to Petersburg from Wrangell. According to court documents, 32-year-old Brannon Finney was fined $8,000, must pay a community service payment […]
A Nampa, Idaho man was indicted in federal court on four counts of felony Lacey Act violations on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a press release. According to the release, 51-year-old Paul Silvas of Idaho violated the act by “illegally guiding, filing false state of Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] 57-year-old Fairbanks Master Guide had his guiding license revoked for the rest of his life in the Nome District Court last Thursday after a plea agreement with the Office of Special Prosecutions, it was reported by Alaska State Troopers on Monday. At sentencing, Master Guide Brian Simpson had his guiding privileges revoked for his lifetime, […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether Ryan Zinke lied to Interior Department investigators. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Justice Department’s public integrity section had begun the probe of the interior secretary, who left office Wednesday. Zinke told the Associated Press that he had not lied to the investigators looking into possible […]