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Sunday Morning Car Thief Suspect Dead after Four APD Officers Discharge their Weapons Moments after midnight on Sunday morning, APD received a stolen vehicle report in the Russian Jack Park area. The caller and owner of the vehicle told police that he was following the car thief on Pine Street and APD officers responded to what would end up being a fatal officer-involved shooting a short time later. After responding, officers would locate the stolen vehicle, abandoned, on the 4600-block of Reka Drive and a perimeter was set up and a K9 unit was brought in to track the suspect, who was soon l...

The Alaska State Troopers reported that on late Thursday afternoon a Wasilla Police Department officer exchanged gunfire with a driver after a pursuit and as a result, was injured, as was a female passenger in the suspect vehicle. According to the report, the WPD officer attempted a traffic stop on Bogard Road near the intersection with Helena Lane at just before 5 pm on Thursday, but instead of pulling over, the driver, later identified as 57-year-old Patrick E. Marrs II, elected to speed away. The officer pursued Marrs down Bogard Road and caught up to him near the Valley Store parking lot ...

APD Continues to Seek Fourth Suspect in October Chelsea Hotel Homicide 2015 image of Jacob Pouli, now 26-years-old. Image-State of Alaska Anchorage police say that they have identified an additional two suspects in the October Chelsea Hotel killing that took the life of 48-year-old Duane Fields. APD detectives identified and charged 31-year-old Josiah F. Pouli and 26-year-old Jacob F. Pouli late last week for murder, and on Friday Josiah was picked up in a traffic stop while he was driving on 68th Avenue. Homicide investigators picked up and charged two others in late October. 34-year-old Sh...

Alaska COVID-19 Case Count Summary: Dec. 13, 2020 Alaska COVID-19 Case Count Summary: Dec. 13, 2020 DHSS today announced 649 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 640 were residents in: Anchorage (269), Wasilla (75), Kodiak (34), Fairbanks (33), Palmer (33), Bethel (22), Kusilvak Census Area (20), Soldotna (20), Eagle River (18), Utqiaġvik (13), Chugiak (11), Kenai (9), North Pole (9), Juneau (8), Homer (6), Bethel Census Area (5), Sitka (5), Fairbanks North Star Borough (4), Kenai Peninsula South (4), North Slope Borough (4), Sterling (4), Big Lake (3), Matanuska-Susit...

Wasilla Motorist Goes Off the Road in Wasilla, Declared Deceased Wasilla Motorist Goes Off the Road in Wasilla, Declared Deceased Friday, a motorist in a vehicle on South Goose Bay Road in Wasilla, was declared deceased at the Mat-Su Regional Hospital despite efforts of witnesses and EMS, troopers reported. At 1:55 am early Friday morning, troopers began receiving REDDI calls reporting a Ford F-150 going off the road near the intersection of South Goose Bay Road and South Foothills Blvd. Witnesses were reported to have stopped and gone to the aid of the driver, later identified as 47-year-ol...