A former Alaskan has recently been indicted on charges of killing his roommate in 2020, but he's already in jail awaiting trial for a murder in Oregon.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 49-year-old Antoine Lapoleon Davis, also known as “Shorty”, trafficked drugs into the state through the U.S. mail system, distributing large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine.
All three men pleaded guilty to leaving the viewing platform at Brooks Falls, a notorious hot spot for brown bears feeding on salmon swimming upstream, and wading into the Brooks River, located in Katmai National Park, in August 2018.
The indictment stems from a double homicide case that began when Anchorage police found Raechyl and Jayla Blackshear dead with “shotgun wounds” on April 15 in a Northeast Anchorage residence.
Anchorage police say that human remains discovered in last summer in Turnagain Pass are those of a man who was reported missing in 2016, and police are now investigating the case as a homicide.
Anchorage police said officers responded to the shooting at 6:40 a.m. to 1500 Karluk Street, near East 15th Avenue. They said the man that was sent to the hospital has injuries to the “upper body” and his condition is still unknown.
Alaska State Troopers Investigator Randy McPherron retired from the Department of Public Safety at the end of April, after spending the last five years, and seven of his career in total, solving some of Alaska's longest outstanding homicides, missing persons and unidentified remains.
A 26-year-old Wasilla man has been charged with murder in the death of a woman who was found in her vehicle last month after being reported missing in late March.
The U.S. Department of Justice reported that a federal jury has convicted four members and an associate of the violent white supremacist gang the 1488s for the 2017 murder of Michael Staton in Alaska, and several other charges.
Law enforcement made two drug busts this week that were “among the largest fentanyl seizures in Alaska history,” according to a news release from the Department of Public Safety.
An Anchorage man has been convicted of sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl, who had already been exploited by another man who has since been sentenced for it.
A Fairbanks man is facing charges of murder and assault in the death of a North Pole man earlier this year, according to charging documents in the case.
Court documents have shed more light on the double homicide case being investigated by the Anchorage police, in which a woman and her daughter were found dead this past Friday.
Anchorage police are looking for a man they consider armed and dangerous, and say he’s connected to a homicide case in which a woman and girl were found dead on Friday.
A Golovin man has been charged with attempted murder stemming from an April 6 incident in which he was shot at by an Alaska State Trooper. The man remains in "serious condition."
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that 65-year-old Jay Allen Johnson of Delta Junction has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for 17 threatening voicemails he left for U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan.
A rural Alaska man who threatened to assassinate both of Alaska’s U.S. senators in a series of profane messages left at their congressional offices is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.
The Department of Justice reported that 48-year-old Andre Ronell Brown of Fairbanks has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the distribution of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl.
Ernest Freeman Gray III, 39, struck and killed 36-year-old Sylvia Heckman while traveling south on Minnesota Drive on Oct. 23, 2021, according to Anchorage police.
Two Anchorage men were indicted by a grand jury Thursday on murder charges stemming from an investigation involving a body found in a tote container in a Muldoon-area neighborhood.
An Anchorage man accused of shooting at multiple police officers and injuring one during an hours-long standoff near downtown Anchorage earlier this month has been indicted on 20 felony charges, including attempted murder.
The Anchorage Police Department detained a man early Thursday morning after firefighters responding to a fire reported that he pulled a gun on them at the scene.
Anchorage police found the body of a man in a tote container in a garage in Northeast Anchorage, according to charging documents in a homicide case initially reported over the weekend.
An Anchorage grand jury indicted 22-year-old Joseph Perkins on two counts of attempted first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree assault on Monday.
The Anchorage District Court set bail amounts for 28-year-old Dillon Spring, who is charged with 18 separate felony counts of attempted murder and assault following the Friday morning standoff with police that sent one officer to the hospital.
A man who police say shot and wounded an officer while a search warrant was being served, leading to an hours-long standoff Friday morning near downtown Anchorage, has been taken into custody.
Alaska State Troopers identified the body found Tuesday near Big Lake Elementary School as that of 16-year-old Devin White. Evidence at the scene suggests that the death was suspicious in nature.
Johnny B. L. Johnson was arrested on an outstanding felony warrant Wednesday after Anchorage police officers tried to block his truck in during an attempted stop in a parking lot.
A former state Department of Homeland Security officer in Anchorage has been indicted on two charges of sexual assault, which follow a previous indictment last year on several other sexual assault charges.
Alaska State Troopers are asking for assistance from the public in locating the person who fired gunshots into an occupied camper near Houston on Sunday night that left one woman dead.
Last week, a grand jury indicted a man on murder and assault charges in connection to a shooting at a Fairbanks grocery store in November that left one man dead and another injured.
Troopers wrote that 19-year-old Samuel Chastain of North Pole was at a residence in North Pole with others — including juveniles — who were consuming alcohol and marijuana when 23-year-old Jubal James of North Pole shot Chastain.
