Crime

An Eagle River nurse practitioner has been convicted on 10 felony counts after prescribing approximately 4.5 million opioids without adequate medical justification, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska.

A Maine man who was convicted of killing and sexually assaulting a woman in Alaska in 1993 is appealing his convictions and sentences.

Former Alaska State Trooper Lieutenant Lantz Dahlke has joined the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons investigative team, effective Oct. 24.

Police say the male was declared dead at the scene. According to an online update, all lanes were reopened shortly after 3:30 a.m.

A Washington man has been indicted by an Anchorage grand jury in relation to the fentanyl overdose of a man in Chignik.

A Palmer jury convicted a man on Wednesday for the brutal 2018 murder of his wife.

An Anchorage man was sentenced to 45 years in prison for producing child pornography, according to a release from the Department of Justice.

Alaska State Troopers are searching for a Soldotna man

A man is dead after driving a vehicle into a gravel pit with deep water in Fairbanks and drowning.

The driver involved in a hit-and-run crash Sunday night has turned himself in to Anchorage police.

A man was arrested in what authorities are calling “one of the most malicious, digitally facilitated sextortion and child pornography production schemes investigated to date by the FBI."

In Superior Court on Tuesday, an Anchorage man was sentenced to serve 50 years for attempted kidnapping, escape and robbery, according to a press release from the Alaska Department of Law.

Jordan Flowers, 23, was sentenced to second-degree murder for 30 years with 10 years suspended, as well as 10 years supervised probation following his sentence.

Police responded to reports of an unresponsive woman lying in a tent near Muldoon Road and East 32nd Avenue shortly after 5 a.m. on Sept. 22.

A man involved in a Sept. 10 two-vehicle car accident has died, according to Anchorage police.

A man is in custody after a pregnant teen was found dead in Selawik, according to an Alaska State Troopers dispatch.

Jyzyk Sharpe’s trial was set to get underway last week after a jury had been selected when the state’s prosecution team offered him a plea deal that would dismiss the Murder-2 charge in exchange for a guilty plea to manslaughter.

A Fairbanks judge handed down sentencing today for the 1993 murder and sexual assault of Alaska Native woman Sophie Sergie.

Former Acting Attorney General Clyde “Ed” Sniffen has pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexually abusing a minor.

Jamal Hall is accused of killing Selena Annette Mullenax and Foriegnne Aubert-Morissette on Jan. 28, 2016.

Troopers said that 32-year-old Peter Levi had reportedly been stabbed by his father, 56-year-old Moses Levi, on Friday afternoon.

A Juneau man was escorted out of a Juneau high school on Friday, according to a Juneau Police Department online report.

Juneau Police are investigating a suspicious death following the discovery of a deceased woman’s body yesterday near the Brotherhood Bridge trail.

A Utah man accused of kidnapping and killing a Homer woman in October 2019 was indicted Wednesday by a Grand Jury in Kenai.

The alleged incident was reported to have occurred with an Anchorage high school student while Sniffen was “in a position of authority” in 1991, the year that Sniffen turned 28.

An Anchorage grand jury has indicted a man on three charges in connection with a death of a woman whose body was found earlier this month.

An Anchorage grand jury has indicted a man on multiple charges after a shooting along a major highway earlier this month.

The report of the shooting came in just before noon Sunday at a cabin near mile 42 of the Elliott Highway, where troopers found the body of a man.

Jose Angel Ibarra, 28, was driving south on the Old Seward Highway in excess of 85 mph when he collided with the Yellow Cab company taxi that 68-year-old Bruce Orton was driving.

A grand jury in Kenai indicted a Homer man on charges from a Dec. 21, 2021, car crash that killed one and injured two others.