Crime & Courts

The shooting was reported Tuesday evening at an address on Muldoon Road, police said.

It was the second time this year that St. Andrew Catholic Church has filed a police report after finding graffiti painted on the front and sides of the building.

A 23-year-old man was fatally shot in mid-November after he came outside to help two women he believed were in danger, according to murder charges filed against 29-year-old Anthony Tinker.

A 24-year-old man is facing charges of leaving the scene of the accident, failure to render aid and driving with a canceled license, police said.

No injuries were reported and the weapon was not discharged, according to the Anchorage Police Department.

Saying that a “serious miscarriage of justice may have occurred,” a judge ordered a new trial for a 37-year-old man convicted of a drug-related shooting.

Evan Nicolai told police he molested the child multiple times in his church housing apartment, charges said.

Kevin Lee Park is facing charges of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer.

A 17-year-old boy was charged as an adult Friday with second-degree murder in Jersey Miller’s death. The other teens face charges within the Division of Juvenile Justice.

Joseph Yaska, 34, shot a woman, aimed a gun at another person, fired into an occupied home and killed a man in a truck, prosecutors said.

A 28-year-old Kenai man was arrested Thursday on charges of first-degree murder, evidence tampering and failing to stop for police, according to the Kenai Police Department.

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

The 51-year-old man’s death was “anticipated,” according to the Alaska Department of Corrections. More people have died in custody so far this year than in any year this decade.

Police on Monday identified the man killed in the shooting early Friday as Brad Robert.

The goal: to educate Alaskans about the myriad challenges people face after being released from incarceration back into the general public.

The co-owners of Arm Rippin Toys tampered with monitoring devices on diesel vehicles and removed air pollution control equipment, federal prosecutors say.

The man told investigators he did not intend to kill the child but used force while “trying to get her to lay down for a nap so he could play video games,” according to a criminal complaint.

No arrests had been made as of Friday morning in the death of a man found outside just before 1 a.m., police said.

Brian Nash, 33, accepted nearly $500,000 in 2019 from the owners of a North Dakota-based company for information about military construction projects.

Numerous investigators in what looked like hazmat suits could be seen collecting evidence in the area of 13th Avenue and Karluk Street on Monday afternoon.

A lawsuit filed by former executive director Marilyn Stewart says her firing by the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights was “in violation of some of the very laws it exists to enforce.”

David Wayne Anderson, 49, held the girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her, then left her for dead in the woods, according to court documents filed with attempted murder charges.

Michael Rowe pleaded guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty on Wednesday. He was sentenced to spend 15 days in jail and pay restitution and a $500 fine.