August 13, 2025 (Sitka, AK) – Yesterday, Sitka Superior Court Judge Amanda Browning sentenced 47-year-old Beth Lang to seven years and six months of incarceration for severely injuring a pedestrian with her vehicle. On Aug. 20, 2024, a Sitka jury found …
July 28, 2025 (Anchorage, Alaska) On July 25, 2025, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Catherine Easter sentenced 29-year-old Charles Billuk to serve 15 years for the Sept. 9, 2019, sexual assault of an Anchorage woman. On May 4, 2023, an Anchorage grand jury …
August 6, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) - On Aug. 1, 2025, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Ramgren sentenced Patrick Leu Tauanuu, 49, to serve 65 years in jail for the intentional murder of Maataua Kalapu Manogiamanu. On the morning of Nov. 19, 2020, Anchorage …
August 7, 2025 (Fairbanks, AK) -- Today, Lataushia Shajuan Blackmer, 50, was convicted by a Fairbanks jury of one count of Scheme to Defraud and one count of First-Degree Theft for making fraudulent purchases with school district funds in 2018 and 2019. …
August 7, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – Nome District Attorney John Earthman retired recently after serving for nearly 26 years. He is one of two people who held the post for 42 years in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic along the Bering Sea. “I’ve never been bored a …
August 5, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor today joined a bipartisan multistate coalition of 50 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to assist in addressing the rampant spread of illegal offshore …
August 5, 2025 (Kodiak, AK) – Today, Kodiak Superior Court Judge Colleen Baxter sentenced 31-year-old Frankie Bates for Criminally Negligent Homicide related to the 2021 overdose death of Jacob Hillsinger, 44, in Kodiak. Ms. Bates was originally indicted …
July 30, 2025 (Juneau, AK) – On July 29, 2025, a jury found 21-year-old John Bisset guilty of two counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree after a two-week trial. The jury acquitted Bisset on two counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree and one …
July 23, 2025 (Fairbanks, AK) – Wednesday, a Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict against 29-year-old Conar Lee Groppel of Fairbanks for Sexual Assault in the Second Degree. For his conviction, Mr. Groppel faces a sentence of up to 99 years. On …
July 22, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – Last week, Judge Michael Wolverton sentenced Thomas Morrical to serve eight (8) years with four (4) years suspended to be followed by seven (7) years of felony probation and fifteen (15) years of registration as a sex …
July 23, 2025 (Kenai, AK) – Yesterday, Alexander Coxwell, 54, was sentenced to 25 years in prison with 10 years suspended, resulting in an initial active term of imprisonment of 15 years, for Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree as part of a plea …
July 21, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – On July 18, 2025, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced 38-year-old Adam Daniel Fleischman to 45 years in prison for the January 2021 murder of his wife, Cassondra Fleischman. Fleischman pled guilty in …
July 21, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – On July 18, 2025, the Office of Special Prosecutions completed its review of an officer-involved shooting incident from May 12, 2025, involving Utuva Alaelua and Anchorage Police Department (APD) Officer Carter Mayes in …
July 15, 2025 (Fairbanks, AK) – Today, a Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict against 28-year-old Christopher Oktollik, of Fairbanks, for Murder in the First Degree. For his conviction, Oktollik faces a sentence of 30 years to 99 years of …
July 10, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – Attorney General Treg Taylor announced today that the State of Alaska would receive approximately $1.8 million following a nationwide settlement with multiple opioid manufacturers. The defendants in this settlement have …
July 14, 2025 (Kenai, AK) – On July 10, Superior Court Judge Lance Joanis sentenced 61-year-old Lawana Barker to eight years with four years suspended followed by seven years of probation for convictions for Criminally Negligent Homicide, Possession of …
July 14, 2025 (Juneau, AK) – Today, 45-year-old James White entered a guilty plea to the charge of Murder in the Second Degree for the murder of 5 1/2-week-old baby Kathy White on April 15, 2024. The lesser charges of Manslaughter, Criminally Negligent …
July 15, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaskan residents now have a more accessible and transparent process to request an Investigative Grand Jury to probe suspected systemic wrongdoing by public figures or public entities in Alaska. This effort aims to empower …
July 11, 2025 (Anchorage, AK) – Today in front of a packed courtroom, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced Jesse Jones, 28, to a composite sentence of 77 years for the murder of Josiah Goecker, 34, and assault of Rosemarie Ortiz at …
July 10, 2025 (Juneau, AK) – On Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Amy Mead sentenced Joshua Shaff, 34, to serve 70 years with 35 years suspended for the murder of Majid Sateri. Shaff previously pled guilty to Murder in the First Degree, pursuant to an …
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