Crime & Courts

Alaska State Troopers also said methamphetamine found in a honey bucket led to the arrest of a Mug-Shot Saloon bouncer on a probation violation.

The assault occurred before 6 a.m. Wednesday while the two men were still locked in their cell, an Alaska State Troopers spokesman said.

A federal judge found that excessive force was “a substantial factor in causing the death” of Dan Demott, 66.

Kuach Kuach fatally shot 22-year-old Devan McDonald while he was in bed on a Sunday morning, according to criminal charges filed in the case.

Kavik Skonberg, 16, was indicted on 11 felony charges Thursday. He’s accused of throwing a fuel drum into a fire and causing an explosion last month.

“As soon as he told me he’d recommended me for a federal judgeship, he started asking me to send him nude photos,” the prosecutor said in a statement to investigators unsealed Monday.

The 35-year-old captured images of multiple victims including two children from the phone stashed in a vent at Palmer’s Fred Meyer, prosecutors say.

Investigators initially believed Stephany Bilecki’s baby daughter died of SIDS in 2015. The case was reopened after her second daughter died of suffocation in 2017.

Police at the time said 27-year-old David Anthony Welch was killed in a drug deal gone awry.

More arrests were expected in the case involving the Mug-Shot Saloon, an Alaska State Troopers spokesman said Tuesday.

He’s accused of using location tracking apps, texts, video calls and other means to stalk his then-partner between 2016 and 2020.

Two men have been charged and sentenced in the case and a third is wanted on a warrant.

Angela Hall’s marriage puts her in a rare category: Those who marry inmates who may never get out of prison. But far more common in America is the experience of having an incarcerated loved one.

William Marsan, who had said he was a “free citizen” who wasn’t subject to government authority, was convicted by a federal jury of operating without a pilot’s license and flying an unregistered plane.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy granted clemency to five people convicted of long-ago drug- and alcohol-related crimes.

Tyler and Rickey Lowe were arrested Wednesday night, Alaska State Troopers said. An alligator that was also a victim in the fight was recovered alive.

Angelic Henderson, 68, was indicted by a federal grand jury last month on 19 charges, including bank fraud and money laundering.

Oravec is the lead attorney for Doyon Utilities LLC, which is part of the regional Native corporation for the Interior.

State prosecutors will decide whether to retry the case, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Law said.

The Office of Special Prosecutions determined Sgt. James Dokken was justified in shooting James Afuvai because he reasonably believed Afuvai would harm or kill him otherwise.

The Anchorage Police Department is asking residents and businesses on the eastern edge of the district to check surveillance video from Monday night.

Tyler Cordes initially told investigators that 25-year-old Drew Brown, who died in the 2021 crash, was driving, according to the Homer Police Department.

Prosecutors say Joshua Kopp, 52, used a state database to keep tabs on a woman he had previously supervised during her probation, charges said.