Police say they found various illegal drugs including 4,000 suspected fentanyl pills at the home.
Crime & Courts
Washington man pleads guilty to selling fake Alaska Native art in Ketchikan
They products, which were actually produced in the Philippines, were sold out of two storefronts in Ketchikan.
Juneau police detain man after 3-hour downtown standoff linked to drug investigation
Police said that two people exited the home early on in the search, but one refused to leave the building.
Alaska mother of ROTC cadet calls lack of accountability for her death ‘unconscionable’
A judge decided that Idaho’s laws didn’t apply in the case, because of a jurisdictional technicality: The crash happened on a military bombing range that isn’t open to the public.
State brings 55 more charges against Petersburg fishing lodge
The charges say the two men helped their clients take too many halibut and did not accurately document the halibut that was caught.
Kotzebue women’s deaths at former mayor’s property did not get thorough investigations, report says
Two Kotzebue women died two years apart at the home of former Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor Clement Richards Sr. No one has been charged in connection with either death.
Alaska’s domestic violence council explores restorative justice methods in court sentencing
Restorative justice is a method of resolution wherein people who are affected by a crime work together to address the harm caused and put things right.
Alaska targeted by drug traffickers seeking higher profits, authorities say
In two related cases indicted in federal court last month, more than a dozen people are accused of trafficking a total of about a 100 pounds of fentanyl and 25 pounds of meth within Alaska.
Proposed class-action lawsuit claims Alaska prisons are holding people without criminal charges
A woman from Stebbins is suing the state Department of Corrections, alleging that she and many others have been unconstitutionally held for more than 48 hours without being charged.
FBI: ‘I am not okay,’ off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot said before trying to turn off jet’s engines
After leaving the cockpit, the off-duty pilot allegedly told a flight attendant, “You need to cuff me right now or it’s going to be bad.”