ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Kenai man was sentenced on Aug. 31, 2023, to 20 months in prison and seven years’ supervised release for not registering as a sex offender after moving to Alaska from Oregon. According to court documents, Wayne Hinze, 65, was convicted of two counts of rape 1, six counts of sexual abuse […]
On Wednesday morning U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that after a seven-day jury trial, two defendants, John Pierce, age 30, and Wayne Michael Moore, age 46, were both found guilty in the bank robbery trial that ended on Tuesday. “The jury found Pierce and Moore guilty of conspiracy to commit credit union robbery, armed […]
Alaska State Troopers and Talkeetna Fire and Rescue responded to the scene of an aircraft crash on the Yentna River, approximately 30 miles north of Anchorage, after being notified by the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center on Saturday afternoon. RCC was alerted of the crash on the Yentna River, the largest tributary of the Susitna River, […]
A Wasilla man has been sentenced to four years in prison for an elaborate phone scam that began in August of 2014, after a joint investigation by Mat-Su Valley State Troopers, Anchorage Police, Kenai Peninsula-based Troopers and the Office of Special Prosecutions in Anchorage, it was reported on Wednesday. On April 28th, 2015, troopers became […]