AST reports that troopers arrested an off-duty Village Public Safety Officer in the community of Kake on charges that include assault and weapons violations on Tuesday. Troopers were notified at 8:12 am on Tuesday that a woman in Kake had been assaulted by 28-year-old Austin Brady and attempted to respond to Kake by aircraft. Inclement […]
At just after 10 pm on Saturday night AST began receiving reports of hearing gunshots in the Moon Rise Drive area of Big Lake and officers responded to investigate. When troopers arrived at the location of the gunshots they opened an investigation that found that 23-year-old Matthew Theison had gotten into an altercation with multiple […]
FAIRBANKS – On April 14, 2023, Senior District Judge Ralph R. Beistline of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska sentenced Jason Benjamin O’Bryan, 30, of Fairbanks, Alaska, to 121 months of imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for attempting to distribute 897 grams of methamphetamine and possession of nine firearms. […]
“Wrong-house shootings are a bleak reminder how many of our fellow Americans are armed and waiting for an opportunity to kill,” said one historian. Numerous shootings of people who have mistakenly approached the wrong property have raised alarm among gun control advocates, as the United States faces what one columnist called the effects of a “national experiment […]