Alaska Beat

ATV road rage in Ft. Yukon

According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, a Fort Yukon man has been sentenced to a year in jail, with nine months of it suspended, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor fourth-degree assault charge, stemming from what Alaska Beat can't imagine is the only case of "road rage" to ever happen on an ATV or off the paved road system. The assault victim, who the accused's lawyer said was intoxicated at the time of the incident last July, told police the defendant had cut him off after running a stop sign and that he hurried in front of the man. That allegedly enraged the defendant, and the rest, apparently is history. "I overreacted," the accused said. "I didn't mean any harm." Read more, here, including a tidbit that some of the victim's relatives wrote letters of support for the defendant.

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