Early Tuesday evening an Alaska State Trooper K9 Unit attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle on the Palmer Wasilla Highway, but instead the vehicle elected to speed away from the stop attempt. The trooper gave chase. The pursuit would last a mere 90 seconds. But during that 90 seconds, the driver reached speeds of […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—Former Advanced Nurse Practitioner Jessica Joyce Spayd (52) was sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday to 30 years (360 months) imprisonment for illegally prescribing and dispensing opioids outside the scope of legitimate medical practice that resulted in the deaths of five people between 2014 and 2019. United States District Judge Joshua M. Kindred handed […]
Alaska State Troopers in Wasilla report that murder suspect, Seth Shacklett, age 35, has been taken into custody for the Wednesday night death of 52-year-old Wasilla resident Nelson Reece. Troopers and EMS were called to the scene of the shooting on Fairview Loop just before 7 pm on Wednesday evening. Found shot, was Reece. Life-saving […]
At 7:04 pm on Saturday, Alaska State Troopers received a report of a missing canoer who along with his companions had experienced a capsizing on Finger Lake in Wasilla. Troopers, EMS, and the Mat-Su Borough Water Rescue Team responded to the scene to assist in the search for the missing canoer identified as 23-year-old Devon […]