Crime & Courts

Anchorage man convicted of giving alcohol to teen who died in crash

An Anchorage jury on Wednesday convicted 32-year-old Robert Green on felony counts of furnishing alcohol to minors, leading to a fatal wreck on O'Malley Road in February 2014, the Anchorage district attorney's office announced in a statement.

Green provided alcohol to a teenager he knew from his work at a local movie theater, prosecutors said.

The 17-year-old driver who died in the single-vehicle accident had consumed that alcohol; they had over three times the legal limit of alcohol in their system, prosecutors said.

Two other teenagers were injured in the collision.

Green was found guilty of two counts of "providing alcohol to the minor who subsequently caused serious physical injury to another person who was under the influence of alcohol," said Anchorage District Attorney Clint Campion. He was also convicted of a misdemeanor alcohol-related charge.

Campion said Green faces a presumptive sentencing range of one to three years. Green is currently out of custody, he said.

Sentencing for the case is set for Feb. 24, 2017.

Jerzy Shedlock

Jerzy Shedlock is a former reporter for Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2017.

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