Police say a man forced his way into strangers’ homes and sexually assaulted them, according to an alert Sunday evening. They did not say how many people had been assaulted.
The man crawled through a small pet door and ran, but was quickly apprehended by Alaska State Troopers, troopers said.
The court system has suspended trials since March in order to limit the spread of coronavirus.
David Orellana, 56, is alleged to have exchanged nearly 2,000 sexually explicit messages with a Naknek teen, troopers said. He was arrested in California and is awaiting extradition to Alaska.
State prosecutors have ruled all of the dozens of killings by police and troopers since 2015 to be justifiable homicide.
Josephine Link, 56, was found in a field in Tununak late Friday, troopers said.
Todd Driskill, 57, injured one man and was later wounded by police gunfire.
James Heakin responded to a domestic violence assault in Eek in June. He returned later during the investigation and sexually assaulted the victim, troopers said.
Jesse Puff, 24, was charged Friday in connection with a July 13 blaze prosecutors say was started in a building's rear stairwell with jugs of gasoline.
Anchorage police say a man was shot and hospitalized with life-threatening injuries early Sunday, and they’re asking for anyone with information to contact them.
Todd Driskill, 57, was taken to jail after the hospital released him and now faces multiple assault and weapons misconduct charges, police said.
The Bering Strait School District hadn't been aware that Lon Dean Gillas, 65, had his teaching license revoked in Oregon in 2010 for viewing explicit materials at the schools where he worked, Superintendent Robert Bolen said.
Cornelius Pettus and Deorman Stout were placed on unpaid leave after they were indicted by a grand jury this week in connection with a 2019 encounter with a bicyclist.
The fire was in the back of the Lithia Kia of Anchorage lot, where other incidents such as theft have taken place recently, according to the general manager.
A third person also faces a manslaughter charge in the death of 27-year-old Ionatana Toa in early April.
Nothing was taken, police said.
Street maintenance workers saw Rodney Whitstine drop grates into storm drains, police said. At least 30 storm drain covers have been removed recently.
Tyler Cavanaugh told police he punched his 43-year-old stepfather Peter Jensen several times early Friday, according to charging documents.
The case was tangled in judicial appeals for four years as attorneys debated whether Corbin Duke should be tried as an adult.
A 67-year-old man from Wisconsin and a 65-year-old woman from New York died in the head-on collision.
