Crime & Courts

Both the suspect and the homeowner survived their gunshot wounds, police said. The shooting was the second involving police in 24 hours.

APD Chief Sean Case said the officer “fired between five and eight rounds” when the suspect didn’t respond to commands and fled on foot.

The 38-year-old man was shot at a home after multiple callers said he was trying to enter vehicles and buildings late Sunday, Alaska State Troopers said.

In Alaska, where the time to resolve most serious felony cases has nearly tripled over the past decade, one case was delayed so long that both victims died. A former prosecutor called it “a travesty of justice.”

The 26-year-old fired through a door, killing a man who witnesses said had been acting erratically, according to a criminal complaint.

The families of Amelia Nowak and Derek Duerr said they believe Matthew Davis’ 30-year sentence was not long enough. Anchorage District Attorney Brittany Dunlop said the plea agreement marked one of the highest sentences to be imposed in Alaska for a DUI homicide.

Family members of Jaclyn Welcome, a mother of six who was killed when an employee at a gas station near downtown fired on a group of people in 2021, criticized the sentence.

Michael Paschall, 62, is accused of stealing more than $400,000 from the Rural Deltana Volunteer Fire Department, according to state officials.

No arrests have been made in the shooting that occurred late Monday, the Anchorage Police Department said Thursday.

One person was wounded by a man who witnesses say called for help, then opened fire from the trees near the Alaska Native Medical Center housing area.

Caleb French secretly took photos of children with the intent of turning the images into AI-generated pornography, prosecutors said.

As Alaska continues to experience high overdose rates, law enforcement agencies targeted not only luggage but also mail.

According to a written account by the Juneau Police Department, someone called the department at 5:25 a.m. Wednesday and said a woman was screaming at people and that she had threatened the caller with a hammer.

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.