Anchorage Daily News

NOORVIK -- Troopers on Friday arrested a man in Noorvik who was wanted for second-degree murder in connection with the November crash that killed an Anchorage doctor.

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Alaska State Troopers found 20-year-old Patrick Tickett at a home in the Kobuk River village at about 10:30 a.m. Friday morning, after receiving tips that Tickett had been traveling between Noorvik and Kiana, said Trooper Sgt. Karl Main.

Troopers had been looking for Tickett since his indictment Feb. 13.

E-mails from people who spotted Tickett in the villages were crucial to the arrest, Main said. "The region right now, with it still being winter time, it's not difficult for someone to go from Kotzebue all the way up north to Ambler and then bounce around between all these villages."

Tickett is accused of killing pediatrician Roger Gollub when Tickett's snowmachine slammed into a dog sled carrying Gollub and a Kotzebue woman. Tickett is also charged with drunken driving and second-degree assault. Troopers say he was drinking, smoking marijuana and using cocaine the day of the crash.

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