Alaska State Troopers report that they are continuing their months-long investigation and evaluating evidence gathered with search warrants carried out on Tuesday, regarding drug and alcohol sales by taxi cab companies in Bethel. In December, the Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team began receiving complaints from Bethel residents reporting drug and alcohol sales being conducted […]
The Hydaburg Village Public Safety Officer responded to a report of a Hydaburg man breaking into a home with a splitting maul and threatening the people inside early on Tuesday morning, the trooper dispatch reported. The VPSO responded to the scene at 6:30 am after receiving a “report of an individual attempting to break down the front […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – Village Public Safety Officers across Alaska are getting new equipment to keep their communities safe. Two hundred innovative Fire Suppression Tools (FSTs), distributed by Flameguard USA, were purchased by the Bristol Bay Native Association and Kodiak Area Native Association VPSO grantees. The FSTs were then distributed by the Department of Public Safety’s […]
It was reported on Monday that the Kiana Village Public Safety Officer Matt Sperl was assaulted by a suspect in that community while placing that person under arrest on Assault charges on Saturday. After receiving a report of a disturbance in the community of Kiana on Saturday, that village’s VPSO went to the scene at […]