Crime
Woman charged with $60,00 Medicaid fraud
The state recently doubled the number of investigators devoted to discovering fraud in an expansive -- and expensive -- system that serves and employs thousands and costs more than $100 million a year.
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CRIME
Former Alaska DOT worker charged with workers' comp fraud
A former Alaska Department of Transportation worker and his supposed masseuse were charged with defrauding the State of Alaska out of more than $20,000 of worker's compensation benefits, the state Department of Law said Monday.
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CRIME
Drug conviction gets former murder suspect 7 years behind bars
An Anchorage man linked to a teenager's death at a party in 2009, then caught last year with drugs he planned to sell in Fairbanks, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday.
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CRIME
Police seek Eagle River shooter in drug deal gone wrong
Officers are on the lookout for Daniel "Fat Dan" Rosendahl, 26, according to a police statement Wednesday. Rosendahl is wanted on charges of robbery, assault and weapons misconduct in the April 24 incident.
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CRIME
Louisiana man pleads guilty to buying illegal walrus tusks
Prosecutors had charged the man, Shreveport resident John Daniel Graves, with buying the six, unaltered walrus tusks, a misdemeanor violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, according to the charges. Only Alaska Natives can sell or buy the raw ivory, most often used to create art and then resold...
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CRIME
In coffee hut collision, alcohol played role in wreck and arrest
The Nissan Altima hit a median and some large rocks on Bragaw Street and smashed into the side of the Arctic Grounds Coffee Company hut.
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CRIME
Man stole car, then fled through South Anchorage neighborhood, police say
Anchorage Police arrested a man accused of stealing a car and leading police on a early-morning chase through a neighborhood in the Dimond area Monday morning.
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LIVING PHOTOS
2013 Alaska Police Memorial Day
'These fallen have left us with many holes in our hearts,' said Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Joseph Masters at the 2013 Alaska Police Memorial Day ceremony Friday, May 10, 2013 at the Alaska State Crime Detection Laboratory in Anchorage. Additional ceremonies will take place May...
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CRIME
Anchorage woman arrested in Fairview stabbing
Joanna Jordan-Robinson, 56, stabbed a man in his midsection during a domestic disturbance at a home in the 1500 block of LaTouche Street about 9:10 a.m. Thursday, an Anchorage police spokeswoman said.
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CRIME
Haines man arrested in 1993 rape, fatal beating of elderly Utah woman
Forty-year-old Stephen Ellenwood ran into the woods Wednesday when Alaska State Troopers showed up at his Allen Road home in Haines with an arrest warrant from Utah. Ellenwood tried to hide but was soon arrested on murder charges in the cold case, troopers said.
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CRIME
Former probation officer sued by 11 as sexual predator
Former Alaska probation officer James R. Stanton, who already has served jail time for targeting vulnerable women in his basement office at the Nesbett Courthouse, is facing a rash of civil lawsuits accusing him of sexually preying on far more women than the three victims in the criminal case.






