Crime & Courts

Josiah Kelly is accused of firing shots at a recovery center last month and twice at the Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic. No injuries were reported.

James White, 44, was arrested last week on second-degree murder charges while jailed on separate charges he assaulted a family member, police said.

The body of Alena Toennis was found Friday morning on a powerline trail, Alaska State Troopers say. Her family says she was recently released from the state juvenile justice system.

A review of 15 years of police shootings by the Anchorage Police Department is complete.

A pair of lawsuits filed by tribal governments in the region are challenging the state’s regulatory process.

The plaintiff’s attorneys had asked for $35 million in damages for her medical care and loss of life potential.

Officers responding to a report of gunfire at about 2:40 a.m. in the Muldoon neighborhood found the man, police said.

The monthlong trial opened a window into what is usually an opaque world of health care inside of Alaska’s jails and prisons.

The 30-year-old said he fired at the clinic Monday and a substance abuse recovery center last month “for religious beliefs,” according to a criminal complaint.

No one was inside the administrative and education building at the time, and clinic staff found damage and bullets when they arrived for work.

The FBI is investigating the vandalism as a possible violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, spokeswoman Chloe Martin said.

Federal prosecutors are also recommending that Dugan Paul Daniels pay a $25,000 fine and be banned from commercial fishing for a year after lying about fishing catches.

A search for the man and woman in a BMW sedan shut down the Parks Highway for about two hours Tuesday.

Police said several people told them that Cedar Mae Sarten’s behavior was “inconsistent with her normal demeanor.”

Prosecutors in Fairbanks have charged an Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities plow driver with drunken driving on the job.

Kenai Peninsula troopers Joseph Miller and Jason Woodruff were initially charged with misdemeanors after the May incident that left the man with serious injuries.

Mingnuna Miller was 28 when she died in a room of the Peak Inn Motel. Martin Saccheus was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

Tylan Fely, 39, is expected to be sentenced to 100 years in prison, including at least 55 years before being eligible for discretionary parole, according to a plea agreement.

Several victims said at a hearing Monday that the sentence was too short to account for the trauma caused by the 2017 blaze in Anchorage.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to vacate a man’s assault conviction, citing an inappropriate relationship between a judge and a prosecutor.

Joseph Siufanua was found Sunday afternoon on McCain Loop with a gunshot wound to his upper body, Anchorage police said.

The victim, a 32-year-old man, was found unconscious in the street and hospitalized with serious injuries, police said.

The man is believed to have robbed a Midtown Credit Union 1 and two South Anchorage Global Credit Union branches, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.