Rachelle Waterman was sentenced on July 15th in Craig to three years in prison for her role in the brutal murder of her mother six years ago. As Deanna Garrison reports, an Anchorage jury found the 22 year old woman guilty in February of criminally negligent homicide. She was not convicted on much more serious…
Crime & Courts
Family appeals suit against Juneau gun retailer
Simone Kim was killed in August of 2006 at the Juneau Fred Meyer store by a rifle obtained by Jason Coday at a nearby gun shop. Kim’s family believes that the owner of Rayco Sales is liable for Kim’s death.
Prosecutors ask for John Marvin Jr.’s bail set at $1M
One-million dollars bail set for the Hoonah man accused of shooting and killing two police officers. John Marvin, Jr., 45, appeared in Juneau District Court on Tuesday. He was escorted by a state trooper and a judicial services officer, and dressed in red prison pants and shirt, and slip-on shoes with his hands & feet cuffed and…
Officers reported killed in Hoonah, stand-off underway
Two Hoonah police officers died after being shot Saturday night. The alleged shooter remains in his house, surrounded by law-enforcement officers. The officers have been identified as 32-year-old Sergeant Anthony Wallace and 39-year-old patrol officer Matt Tokuoka. Both died of wounds inflicted by a single gunman. The suspect is identified as John Marvin Jr., a…
Coday murder trial continues
Prosecutors continued revealing their case Thursday in the Jason Coday murder trial in Juneau, presenting the last of eyewitnesses and moving to physical evidence. Coday is accused of murder and misconduct involving weapons for using sawed-off rifle to fatally shoot a construction worker at the back of Juneau’s Fred Meyer store last August. 26-year old…