Crime & Courts

The 16-year veteran of the force had arranged to meet a teenage girl at a hotel in Anchorage after exchanging explicit messages.

Three people broke into an 80-year-old man’s trailer and beat him after they saw accusations about him online, according to court documents filed in the case.

Andrew Ronald-Dale Johnson was charged with attempted murder and kidnapping after police arrested him early Monday morning, a day following his escape, city officials said.

A Palmer jury deliberated for 10 days before acquitting Clayton Allison on Tuesday of more serious charges in a retrial ordered in 2019 by the Alaska Court of Appeals.

Witnesses said they saw Grant Hill fighting with another man before the March 9 fire that killed 43-year-old Victor Smith, according to a sworn affidavit filed in the case.

Gavin Christiansen fatally shot 35-year-old Devin Moorhouse while on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, charges said.

Garrett Elder was ordered to pay back his clients by the Alaska Division of Banking and Securities.

John Angerer, now 53, was indicted in February by a grand jury on one count of second-degree murder in the death of Angela Wilds, 38.

Joshua Bell and Kapri Willis face first-degree murder charges in the shooting that left two people dead.

Washington state resident Marc Ryan Hetsler was sentenced to time served after he admitted he confronted a flight attendant, according to a plea agreement this week.

Francis James Robert is accused of fatally shooting a neighbor in the Interior Alaska village who was his great-uncle.

The circumstances of the incident and the relationship between the people involved remains under investigation, according to the police department.

Federal prosecutors allege that a longtime Fish and Wildlife employee embezzled more than $100,000 and used work-issued credit cards to make personal purchases.

A 23-year-old man was charged this week with four counts of murder for a shooting in a parking lot that left one man dead and another wounded.

Police had initially said her death may have been caused by a hit-and-run, then said it was being investigated as a homicide. In an update this week, police said the death was determined not to be criminal in nature.

Anchorage police in 1994 investigated a report that a child had been sexually assaulted at a park.

Charges were forwarded to the Division of Juvenile Justice, police said.

State lawmakers have been considering broader legislation intended to help people convicted before legalization

Eric Chaney Jr. was taken into custody after an hourslong standoff with Anchorage police Friday night. His 8-month-old son, who was the subject of an Amber Alert, was found safe.

Officials said 8-month-old Ahmiri Chaney was found safe after he was reported missing from a home where police found a woman dead. A suspect in that homicide investigation has been taken into custody.

A jury last year convicted John Pearl Smith II of killing two people in Meadow Lakes.

Denali Brehmer, who was 18 at the time, changed her plea Wednesday in the killing of Cynthia Hoffman. The crime was part of an elaborate catfishing scheme, authorities say.

Nicolas Bushnell told police he and Breann Lang knew each other when he turned himself in Sunday, saying he strangled her, according to court documents.