An Alaska couple was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 2-year-old boy who was placed into their care after his father murdered his mother in September. Arraigned on Thursday, Steven Melovidov, 31, is accused of fatally striking Joshua Rukovishnikoff on December 11 and injuring his genitals. Following an emergency call that day, Melovidov’s wife, …
An Alaska man was indicted last last month for the murder of a man who had been missing for five years — and whose body was found beneath the floorboards of the man now charged with his death, the Alaska Department of Public Safety says. Jay Osmond Gardner, 55, had long been a suspect in …
An Alaska-based dentist who was filmed performing oral surgery while riding on a hoverboard was found guilty on Friday of various criminal charges related to his profession. An Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton found Seth Lookhart, 34, guilty of 46 criminal counts, including Medicaid fraud, reckless endangerment, and “unlawful dental acts.” Wolverton wrote that …
A 5-year-old child abandoned at home in a remote Alaska village carried an 18-month-old through 31 below zero temperatures to a neighbor’s home earlier this month after the power went out, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement on Friday. State troopers had to charter an aircraft to fly to Venetie from Fairbanks, 155 miles …
An Alaska man was accused of fatally shooting his younger sister on Thanksgiving as her 1-year-old son sat in her lap. The Anchorage Daily News reported that Moses Crowe, 27, shot his sister, Amanda Owen, 23, in the head after getting into an argument with her about unfriending or blocking him on Facebook. Crowe’s grandmother …
An Alaska man was arrested on murder charges this week, days after an SD card was discovered which reportedly showed him beating and strangling a woman in a hotel room. The Anchorage Police Department said in a Nixle alert on Wednesday that a woman contacted them on September 30, after finding an SD card which …
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Officials have released footage showing a father and son in Alaska illegally killing a mother bear and her two cubs, who were under video surveillance as part of a governmental study. Recorded by the Alaska Department of Public Safety, the April 2018 footage showed Andrew Renner, 41, and Owen Renner, then 17, skiing to the den before Owen …
Officials in Alaska said an Army soldier was seriously injured Saturday when a bear he shot at Carter Lake fell off a ridge and came tumbling down on him. The Department of Public Safety said in a daily dispatch that William McCormick, 28, was airlifted to an Anchorage hospital with life-threatening injuries after the bear and …
The 29-year-old son of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is facing charges including domestic violence assault after a reported altercation at his home. According to Us Weekly, Track Palin was arrested on Friday after authorities in Wasilla, Alaska, received a disturbance report. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Palin has was arrested last year on suspicion of …
By RACHEL D’ORO, Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man linked to a 10-year-old girl’s death through her cellphone pleaded not guilty Friday to lying to federal authorities investigating the case. After entering his plea in U.S. District Court in Anchorage through an assistant public defender, Peter Wilson was scheduled for a Nov. 19 …
An Alaska man who accepted a plea deal after being accused of choking a woman unconscious and masturbating on her will serve no jail time and won’t have to register as a sex offender. According to KTVA, Justin Schneider, 34, pleaded guilty to a single felony assault charge in exchange for a two-year sentence. With one year suspended …
By RACHEL D’ORO, Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A search that includes 17 FBI agents has yielded no sign of a 10-year-old girl who went missing in a remote, largely Inupiat Eskimo town north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska’s western coast, prompting authorities to investigate whether foul play was involved. Ashley Johnson-Barr was last …
