Fairbanks, Alaska (KINY) - The Fairbanks Emergency Communication Center received a report of suspicious circumstances Sunday evening in the woods after a caller said she was walking in the woods with her mother when her mother lunged at her.
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It’s a twist to an already odd story that began Saturday morning, when Sharkey entered the Yukon Territory at the Beaver Creek U.S.-Canada border crossing on the Alaska Highway about 300 miles south of Fairbanks.
The Canadian Port of Entry at Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory.
Credit Canadian Border Services Agency
Sharkey was turned back, because of Canada’s COVID-related travel restrictions, but he reportedly refused to leave the checkpoint, and according to a Canadian Border Services Agency spokesperson he was arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
An RCMP spokesperson says Sharkey wasn’t charged with any offense, but was brought back across the border, along with his vehicle, to the U.S. checkpoint at Port Alcan. Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniel says soon thereafter, they got a call from Customs officers at port of entry asking for help with a quote “hostile subject.”
An Anchorage man was being held this morning at Fairbanks Correctional Center after he was denied entry into Canada then was arrested on both sides of the
Two teenagers were taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital Saturday night after being shot by another teenager at a party, according to Alaska State Troopers.
About 11:30 p.m. Saturday, troopers responded to a report of an underage bonfire party with roughly 50 people in attendance near 9 Mile Richardson Highway, a trooper dispatch stated. The troopers heard gunshots as they arrived and discovered that two juvenile males had been shot in their abdomens, according to the trooper dispatch. The teenage victims were transported to Fairbanks for emergency surgery.
As of Monday, the victims are still hospitalized but are stable, according to Department of Public Safety public information officer Gretchen Weiss-Brooks.