An Anchorage man was arraigned Wednesday following his arrest Tuesday evening by Dillingham Police.
Authorities had been looking for Christian Andre Young, 24, of Anchorage through the weekend, and a final tip helped them find him at a Nerka residence.
Young was arrested quietly Tuesday evening by Dillingham police, and arraigned Wednesday morning on charges he violated felony probation.
He was sought in connection with a warrant in a robbery case, though authorities suspect he had been in town in connection to heroin sales for several weeks.
No drug allegations have been officially charged.
The warrant called for a bail amount of $1,000, but a new violation of unauthorized travel to Dillingham was added by an Anchorage probation officer. Based on that, Young will be held without bail until an arraignment Sept. 14 in Anchorage.
About a dozen residents showed up for the routine arraignment.
The added presence Wednesday wasn’t necessarily about the defendant himself, but about a larger message that the community will keep pushing back, Carol Luckhurst said.
“If I had a sign I’d stand out there and tell him that he’s not a wanted person here in Dillingham,” she said.
“The people that are here, we’re community members,” she said. “My fight now is to get more of our tribal leaders and our city leaders more involved.
Luckhurst has watched the drug problems get a lot worse in the last four or five years, she said.
She’s particularly concerned that young people are growing up normalized to the heroin abuse and the harm it’s causing.
“I don’t want my grandson, or somebody else’s grandchildren thinking this is the way life is. It’s not. There’s so much more for all these young individuals,” she said. “They have potential. And then they find themselves in this situation. I’m not saying everybody’s involved in it, but there’s a lot of people that have so much more that they could be doing than they’re doing now.”
