Crime & Courts

LA man gets 10 years for string of robberies in Anchorage

A 37-year-old Los Angeles man will spend a decade in prison for a string of robberies in Anchorage last year, but he also is a fugitive in his home state and faces extradition.

Donnie Holton pleaded guilty to and was sentenced on a consolidated first-degree robbery charge in Anchorage Superior Court on Friday, court records show.

Holton took responsibility for a series of robberies in April and May 2016 in the neighborhood of Mountain View, prosecutors said.

The charges against Holton say he robbed a Holiday gas station in Mountain View three times, another station off Northern Lights Boulevard and a Subway restaurant on Northway Drive.

In the majority of the robberies, the suspect was wearing a baseball cap with a marijuana leaf and "distinctive shoes," and he used a silver revolver to threaten his victims, according to the charges.

A woman who'd been living with Holton told a liquor store clerk that Holton admitted to committing robberies and "threatened her if she told police," the charges say.

Holton was arrested at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport by an airport officer who responded to a ticket counter when Holton complained a woman had run off with his ID, and he could not fly out of state to California, according to the charges. The officer arrested him on an extraditable warrant out of California for a parole violation.

Jerzy Shedlock

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

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