Credit Elyssa Loughlin / KYUK
A man was found dead at a home on B.I.A. Road in Bethel around 1 p.m. on May 6. Police responded to the scene after receiving a report of a possible homicide, according to a police press release. At the home, they found Scott Greydanus dead from traumatic injuries. Police arrested a suspect, his son, Nathan Greydanus, and remanded him to the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center.
The Bethel Police Department asks that anyone with information about this incident please call 907-543-3781.
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At 1 pm on Thursday afternoon, Bethel-based troopers were alerted to a stolen white pickup truck driving erratically and headed to Bethel from Akiachak and troopers responded to locate the vehicle in Bethel, troopers reported.
Troopers would successfully locate the vehicle in Bethel and attempted to initiate a traffic stop. The driver of the purloined vehicle ignored troopers and took them on a 50-mile chase along the ice roads between Bethel and Akiachak.
The chase came to an end just outside of the village of Akiachak when the truck impacted a snowbank becoming immobilized. Troopers made contact with the driver, identified as 30-year-old Charlene Peter of Akiachak, and placed her under arrest on multiple charges that included Vehicle Theft I, Failure to Stop at the Direction of a Peace Officer, Felony Misuse of Plates, DUI, and Reckless Endangerment.
Credit Bethel Police Department
The investigations into the two shootings by Bethel police from earlier this month are ongoing. Bethel Police Chief Richard Simmons said that the two incidents are unrelated.
“There were completely different personnel on at the time from two different rotations, the persons involved are unrelated, and there was no similarity in how the cases evolved,” Simmons wrote in an email to KYUK. “Bethel’s officers handle weekly violence with weapons calls and felonious assaults, and the potential for things to become very dangerous on calls is real.”
The names of the officers and men who were shot have not been released. Neither have the charges against the suspects.
Credit Katie Basile / KYUK
The COVID-19 outbreak at the Bethel jail continues to grow larger. As of Dec. 8, there were 65 active cases at the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. That’s well over a quarter of the inmate population at the facility, and an increase of 26 cases within five days.
Alaska Department of Corrections Spokesperson Sarah Gallagher wrote in an email that none of the active cases at YKCC are currently hospitalized. She said that a previously infected inmate had been transported to the Bethel hospital, but has since returned to the facility. She said that YKCC is continuing serial testing of inmates to try to isolate positive cases as soon as possible.