A welfare check on four persons known to be traveling to Blind Slough south of Petersburg on the Mitkof Highway on Monday came to an unfortunate conclusion shortly after the request, troopers report. As troopers were responding to the Blind Slough area they were informed of a vehicle wreck at mile 27 of the […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on Wednesday that after receiving a request from Anchorage police for a welfare check on a distraught 27-year-old, whose vehicle was located at the McHugh Creek Trailhead, they located and retrieved the remains of Cody McFarland from a mountainside on Saturday. “Information received by AST indicated the male was contemplating […]
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]EADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Army officials today announced the death of a U.S. Army Alaska Soldier at his home in North Pole Wednesday, Jan. 2. Alaska State Troopers discovered the body of Sgt. Jorden Thomas Williams, 25, during a welfare check requested by his family in the Lower 48. Williams, […]
Alaska State troopers were met with wheels for help when they knocked on the door of the Fairbanks residence during a welfare check on Sunday afternoon. After hearing the calls for help at just after 1230 on Sunday afternoon, Cooper’s forced open the door at the Peger Road residence, to discover a 67-year-old Fairbanks resident […]
Anchorage police say they have opened an investigation, after discovering two bodies at a Hillside residence, but, say that there is currently no public safety threat to the community. APD responded to a residence on the 11000-block of Hillside Drive on Sunday, after receiving a welfare check at that location. They checked the residence on […]
Troopers report that they had made a warrant arrest on a Palmer man on Wednesday on multiple criminal counts following a Saturday stand-off with AST officers. It was at 10:48 pm on Saturday night that troopers responded to an Kalwies address in Palmer to conduct a welfare check on 74-year-old Frank Bird. When they arrived […]
A woman, who despite giving troopers false information as to her identity, was scooped up on several outstanding warrants during a welfare check in Fairbanks on Friday, troopers report. Fairbanks troopers, who were conducting a welfare check on two individual sleeping in a vehicle at the end of Chena Small Tract Road, contacted the two […]
Alaska State Troopers did a welfare check on Kenny Lake man, 56-year-old Russell Routt, only to find him deceased in his residence, the trooper dispatch divulged on Friday. According to the report, when troopers arrived, they observed Routt through the living room window laying on the floor. They made entrance into the residence, to find […]
On Monday evening, Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers received a request for a welfare check on a male who was in the area of the Carlanna Lake trailhead, the caller reported that the subject of the call “could hardly walk.” When troopers responded to the area, they “located a male lying on the ground who was […]