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8:45 p.m. AKST, January 24, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
Anchorage police arrested a 34-year-old local man Tuesday accused of sexually abusing a young girl for several years, periodically beating her and threatening to kill members of her family if she ever told others.

According to APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker, Terry Sievers was taken into custody by detectives with the department’s Crimes Against Children Unit. He has been charged with first-degree and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor.

Court documents say the victim, who is now 15, told the unit’s Detective Len Torres in October that the abuse began when she was 4 or 5 years old, when Sievers — a friend of the family — allegedly walked into her bedroom and beat her before performing and demanding oral sex.

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/anchorage-police-arrest-man-for-repeatedly-abusing-girl-012412,0,3497569.story

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6:23 a.m. AKST, January 23, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
Anchorage Police are investigating an early morning shooting, Monday, that sent one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the lower back, and in the process bust a commercial marijuana grow at his house.

Police were called to the Chevron and McDonalds near the corner of Abbott and Lake Otis after midnight.

Police found 42-year-old Mark Purcella with a single gunshot wound in the back. He was taken to the hospital, and as of 2 a.m. was in surgery. His condition is unknown.

APD says it has received multiple stories from witnesses and those it believes are involved. Police do not believe the man was shot at the gas station

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-anchorage-police-investigate-overnight-shooting-20120123,0,1323397.story

By Kate McPherson
Story Created: Jan 12, 2012 at 8:47 AM AKST

Human trafficking: It’s a major problem Anchorage police and other law enforcement here in Alaska battle. Mayor Dan Sullivan says it’s time the community at large recognizes its existence.

Mayor Sullivan has proclaimed Thursday as a day of human trafficking awareness in Anchorage.

Read more: http://www.ktva.com/home/outbound-xml-feeds/Agencies-Address-Human-Trafficking-in-Alaska-137189753.html

Law enforcement officers in Anchorage rode extra patrols on the lookout for drunk drivers during the holiday weekend.

Both the Anchorage Police Department and Alaska State Troopers had extra officers on duty.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/01/03/2244913/holiday-dui-arrests-total-225.html#storylink=cpy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The driver police say hit two pedestrians with his truck early New Year’s Day remains free, and has prompted many member of the public to ask why. Tex Daniels II, 21 of Chugiak, has not been arrested, and charges have not been filed.

“We know that it is frustrating to the public, but it takes time for the blood analysis,” Anchorage Police Department Lt. Dave Parker said.

At the time of the crash, investigators took a blood sample from Daniels and it was sent to the state crime lab, according to Parker.

Read more: http://www.ktuu.com/news/vehicle-pedestrians-crash-anchorage-police-explain-delay-in-arrest-ktuu-20120103,0,2899911.story

By CASEY GROVE
Anchorage Daily News
Published: January 9th, 2012 10:55 PM

Undercover cops working at Anchorage bars in recent weeks have brought criminal charges against about 20 patrons whom police say had too much to drink, and charges are pending for staff who may have served too many drinks to their clientele, police say.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/01/08/2252919/police-crack-down-on-bar-drunkenness.html#storylink=cpy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Anchorage Police Department is warning people of a credit card scam targeting hotel guests after receiving two complaints.

According to police, the scammer calls a guest and reports a problem running the guests credit card number when checking into the hotel and asks for the guest’s credit card information over the phone.

Anchorage Police said that one potential victim received a phone call from his credit card company, while speaking to a so-called hotel manager on the hotel phone.

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/apd-warns-hotel-guests-of-credit-card-phone-scam-ktuu-20120109,0,7253699.story

Anchorage, Alaska -Two people were shot around 1:00 a.m. Monday in a Spenard parking lot, according to Anchorage Police.

Police said the shooting happened at the Paradise Inn located on Spenard Rd. and 30th Ave.

Anchorage Police said 25-year-old Louie Gephart, his brother Jesus Gephart, his girlfriend and a second woman had been drinking at the bar at the inn when they got into an argument with the owner of the Paradise Inn, Kyong Song.

Court documents revealed that Song came up to Jesus Gephart and they started bickering about whether Jesus had paid for the room, or whether he paid enough for the room.

Song told them all to leave.

Read More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45848965/ns/local_news-anchorage_ak/

By KYLE HOPKINS Anchorage Daily News
Published: January 2nd, 2012 10:19 PM
Last Modified: January 3rd, 2012 07:41 AM

A 54-year-old man died New Year’s Day at a much-debated new home for chronic alcoholics in Anchorage, police say.

The death comes less than a month after the Dec. 8 opening of Karluk Manor, a “Housing First” program where homeless people are allowed to drink in their private efficiency apartments. The 46-unit center is run by the nonprofit Rural CAP and was opened after a series of deaths among Anchorage homeless in parks, trails and camps over the past two years.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/01/02/2242947/resident-found-dead-in-karluk.html#storylink=cpy

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3:13 p.m. AKST, January 2, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— An Anchorage special education teacher remains in critical condition on Monday afternoon following a New Year’s day vehicle-pedestrians crash that injured the woman and her boyfriend.

Ashley Marie Brotherton, and Clayton Tyler Wilbanks, both 24-years-old, were walking north on I street around 1:15 a.m. Sunday when investigators say a 1994 red Dodge Ram 1500 slammed into them from behind.

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/witnesses-recount-vehiclepedestrians-crash-ktuu-20120102,0,6620371.story

By CASEY GROVE
Anchorage Daily News
Published: December 29th, 2011 10:52 PM
Last Modified: December 30th, 2011 01:13 AM

A woman whose vehicle crashed into a house on Lake Otis Parkway, injuring the homeowner inside, was charged Wednesday with drunken driving and assault in the October incident, Anchorage police say.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/29/2238450/driver-who-crashed-into-house.html#storylink=cpy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— An Anchorage pedestrian is listed in critical condition on Thursday after a vehicle crashed into him, according to Anchorage Police.

The crash happened around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of 6th Avenue and Muldoon Road.

Police said 21-year-old Nadaris Whitted was driving a 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck and hit 33-year-old Benjamin Raley.

According to witnesses, Whitted was travelling north on Muldoon Road, when he entered a yellow light approaching 6th Avenue, while Raley stepped onto Muldoon Road against the cross walk.

Raley was broadsided by the truck as it tried to slow, and he suffered a head injury.

APD said the driver showed no signs of impairment and no citations were issued.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A 14-year-old girl injected with a strong form of heroin by a 26-year-old man has died, Anchorage Police said Thursday.

The girl, who was identified as Jena Dolstad, had been in critical condition since state prosecutors alleged Sean Warner injected her with a dose of “China White” heroin at his Turnagain home last week.

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-girl-injected-with-heroin-dies-20111229,0,2219100.story

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Anchorage Police Department charged an Anchorage woman Wednesday with DUI and assault after crashing her SUV into a home on Lake Otis Parkway in October.

APD arrested 49-year-old Brandie Thurow-McGrew after blood test results showed she was legally drunk and was also under the influence of prescription drugs at the time of the crash.

Read more: http://www.ktuu.com/news/apd-charge-woman-after-driving-suv-into-home-ktuu-20111229,0,96570.story

The Anchorage Police Department began stepped-up enforcement of impaired-driving laws on Thanksgiving and will continue through to New Year’s Day. Grant money pays for extra shifts for officers to target drunk and drugged drivers. It’s unclear, so far, whether arrests will be up or down from last year; traffic investigators say they plan to analyze the results of this year’s effort in January

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/29/2237048/apd-steps-up-dui-enforcement-for.html#storylink=cpy

A 14-year-old Alaska girl is in critical condition days after a 26-year-old man injected her with heroin at his Anchorage home, authorities said Tuesday. Sean Warner is charged with a drug-related felony and other counts. Court documents say Warner tried to revive the girl himself and didn’t immediately call police.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/27/2235353/alaska-teen-in-dire-condition.html#storylink=cpy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 14-year-old Alaska girl was in critical condition days after a 26-year-old man injected her with heroin at his Anchorage home, authorities said Tuesday.

Sean Warner is charged with a drug-related felony and other counts. Court documents say he tried to revive the girl himself and didn’t immediately call police.

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By ROSEMARY SHINOHARA
Anchorage Daily News
Published: December 28th, 2011 02:00 AM

Anchorage, Alaska – Anchorage Bowl dwellers might need to visit a friend with a large lot in South Anchorage, the Hillside or the Eagle River-Chugiak area to legally set off personal fireworks on Saturday night.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/27/2235571/new-rules-put-squeeze-on-legal.html#storylink=cpy

By LISA DEMER
Anchorage Daily News
Published: December 25th, 2011 10:02 PM

Disturbing new numbers accent what law enforcement, social agencies, Native leaders and politicians have long realized about Western Alaska: It struggles with far more than its share of violence and family dysfunction.

A picture of the challenge emerges from the Alaska State Troopers’ just-completed annual report for 2010.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/24/2233181/many-more-sex-crimes-on-alaskas.html#storylink=cpy

Kyle Dwiggins, who was being sought by police for allegedly bilking victims out of some $130,000 in two separate scams , was taken into custody in a Midtown parking lot Thursday night, police reported this morning.

Dwiggins, the 26-year-old owner of a company called Sooner Repairs, is accused of failing to complete home-repair work for which he’d been paid and for stealing rental deposits for an apartment that wasn’t his.

Read more here: http://community.adn.com/?q=adn/node/159148#storylink=cpy

By CASEY GROVE
Anchorage Daily News
Published: December 23rd, 2011 10:18 AM

The fight over an Anchorage law banning people from sitting or lying on downtown sidewalks continued Thursday in front of City Hall as protesters gathered to defy the new rules, which went into effect at 6 a.m.

At noon, a group of about 20 men and women lingered along Sixth Avenue, some holding signs, while two security guards and a police officer looked on. The protesters included Lisa Maxon, lying flat on her back on the sidewalk, and Bryant DeHusson, sitting in a chair holding a placard that read, “This is illegal.”

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/22/2230281/demonstrators-protest-law-banning.html#storylink=cpy

KTUU.com

4:55 p.m. AKST, December 16, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Anchorage police say a 2-year-old boy shot in the head with a stray round from a neighbor’s gun Sunday evening is continuing to recover.

According to APD spokesperson Marlene Lammers, Ashton Chinnis — the son of Officer Calvin Chinnis — was awake and communicating with family members Friday.

Read more: http://www.ktuu.com/news/anchorage-police-say-boy-accidentally-shot-in-head-recovering-121611,0,4663195.story

KTVA.com

Dec 15, 2011 at 7:42 AM AKST
Anchorage, Alaska – Nearly 2,000 Anchorage residents are arrested every year for drunk driving; this year three people have lost their lives.

In the last decade, DUI arrests in Anchorage have gone down significantly; back in 2002 there were 20 alcohol related deaths, in 2010 five people died, and so far this year there have been three DUI deaths.

Read more: http://www.ktva.com/home/outbound-xml-feeds/DUIs-down-in–135665323.html

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4:11 p.m. AKST, December 15, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Anchorage police arrested a 44-year-old man on probation Thursday for allegedly making two bomb threats against the state Department of Corrections’ local probation office to avoid a surprise urine analysis.

According to APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker, Bryant K. Brown was taken into custody on a warrant for two charges of second-degree terroristic threatening

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/anchorage-police-arrest-man-for-making-2-bomb-threats-121511,0,1468196.story

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8:26 p.m. AKST, December 10, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Ak—
An 18-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach near the Westchester Lagoon tunnel overnight Saturday, according to Anchorage Police Lt. Dave Parker.

After the stabbing, Parker says the victim, Ramon Gutierrez, went to the 1300 block of W. 16th Ave to get help. A neighbor called emergency workers, and Gutierrez was treated at an area hospital. He is expected to be OK

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-apd-investigates-overnight-robbery-stabbing-20111210,0,1651102.story

Channel 2 News Reporter

3:24 a.m. AKST, December 12, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
A 2-year-old boy is in emergency surgery Monday morning after being hit by a stray bullet while in his crib inside an East Anchorage home late Sunday night, according to Anchorage Police.

APD says the boy’s father heard a loud “pop” and found his son bleeding with a head wound and a bullet hole in the wall of their home on the 6800 block of Brittany Rock Way, near Northern Lights and Patterson

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-anchorage-toddler-hit-by-stray-bullet-20111212,0,299052.story

2:27 a.m. AKST, December 9, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
Anchorage Police say hardened snow banks on the side of the road proved unforgiving late Thursday night, and may have contributed to the death of a passenger riding in an SUV.

It was around 11:30 p.m. The snow had just begun to fall, as the driver headed south on Gambell Street and crossed 15th Avenue.

“Whatever the speed was, it was too fast for conditions,” said Sgt.Glen Daily. “The road goes downhill and curves. If you’re carrying too much speed, then the tires don’t grip as they should, and as you’re trying to go down the curve, the car just slides. It turns into a sled.”

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-woman-dies-in-one-car-rollover-in-midtown-anchorage-20111209,0,7113315.story

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7:26 a.m. AKST, December 9, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
APD are searching for a suspect in an early morning kidnapping and attempted rape, who is considered armed and dangerous rape, on Friday.

APD describe as a medium to dark complexion black male, approximately 40 years of age, about 5’9” tall with a stocky build

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/apd-searching-for-suspect-in-kidnapping-and-attempted-rape-ktuu-20111209,0,6180591.story

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7:30 a.m. AKST, December 8, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— APD say a man was shot in the arm in a focused attack at the Holiday gas station on 68th Avenue and Lake Otis Parkway on Thursday morning.
According to Anchorage Police, a dispute between two males led to the shooting shortly after 6:00 a.m.

APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker says the victim suffered a serious wound to the arm and lost a lot of blood. He was taken to a local hospital

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/apd-man-shot-in-arm-in-morning-shooting-ktuu-20111208,0,1483300.story

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11:47 a.m. AKST, December 7, 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
Anchorage police questioned and released three people after an armed robbery at a Fairview gas station Wednesday morning, but are still seeking a suspect.

APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker says the Shell store, at 15th Avenue and Ingra Street, was robbed at about 9 a.m. by someone with a long gun, but did not specify what was stolen.

Read More: http://www.ktuu.com/news/apd-respond-to-fairview-gas-station-robbery-ktuu-20111207,0,2939958.story