Juneau police say they arrested a 24-year-old Minnesota man wanted on a warrant for a probation violation related to an attempted murder conviction.
Taylor J. Pass had an outstanding extraditable warrant from Dakota County, Minnesota, Juneau police said.
On Tuesday around 8 p.m., an officer working at the Juneau International Airport reported that a man was "possibly sleeping near the small commuter flight section of the airport," police said.
Juneau Police Department Communications Director Erann Kalwara said the officer who wrote the report did not indicate what prompted suspicion.
"He (Pass) was not in an area he wasn't supposed to be in," she said.
It was determined the man, identified as Pass, was wanted in his home state. Two officers contacted Pass sleeping on the ground near the Wings of Alaska ticket counter and identified him. Pass was with a 26-year-old woman, also from Minnesota, police said.
Pass was arrested on a no-bail warrant alleging a probation violation, police said, related to original felony charges of second-degree murder, first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree assault.
Pass pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Aug. 16, 2013 to attempted murder in connection to an assault in a Burnsville, Minnesota, townhome in 2009, according to the Dakota County Attorney's office. He was given probation and had credit for more than 400 days in jail, said community relations director Monica Jensen.
"As part of the conditions of his probation, he was not to leave the state," Jensen said.
Pass is currently being housed at Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau.