While two Alaska Wildlife troopers were at the Swentna River Iditarod checkpoint on Tuesday they saw a young child fall through the ice and with assistance from an Iditarod volunteer the child was saved from certain death in the icy waters of the river. Trooper Knier and Trooper Gunderson observed the eight-year-old child fall into […]
On Thursday evening, Wildlife troopers on Prince of Wales and Village Public Safety Officers on the island did a check on an unoccupied home in Hollis that resulted in the arrest of a Washington man on several charges. VPSOs and Wildlife troopers went to the home at 5:15 pm on Thursday and immediately discovered fresh […]
At approximately 8 am on Monday morning, troopers received a REDDI (Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately) on a pickup truck near Portage south of Girdwood. The caller reported that the pickup was driving erratically, and also reported that the driver “had wrecked at more than one location along the highway, south of Girdwood.” Nine minutes […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers say that they conducted an investigation into the collision of a pair of boats during the opening moments of the Sitka Sac Roe Herring fisheries on Saturday, but did not issue any criminal charges. At 12:01 pm on Saturday, the F/V Crimson Beauty and the F/V Sarah Dawn collided as the two […]