Employees from the Alaska Dispatch News evacuated the newspaper’s building Thursday morning after receiving information about a potential threat.
Jennifer Castro, communications director for the Anchorage Police Department, said a man was taken into police custody at the newspaper’s mid-town office where he was making “odd statements” and appeared “disgruntled.”
The man is known to police, and there were concerns over his mental health.
The unnamed man had a holstered gun, Castro said, and is being questioned by police.
Anchorage police said it’s not clear whether a crime was committed and it is not aware of any direct threats the man made against the paper.
Police received a call at 9:40 a.m. from an office building on the east side of town about a man creating a “verbal disturbance” that prompted concern among employees.
Employees have since returned to work.
