U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska
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A Wasilla man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for distributing carfentanil, a potent opioid, which led to the fatal overdose of a minor and the near-fatal overdose of an adult.
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An Anchorage woman was arrested following a federal indictment alleging her involvement in a wire and bank fraud scheme that included mail theft and aggravated identity theft.
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A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted a 28-year-old Kipnuk man, Petngalria Paul, also known as “Garrett,” on multiple child pornography charges.
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A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted Dwight Chris John, a 74-year-old former church elder from Ketchikan, on charges related to child exploitation.
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A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted Adam Pool, a 39-year-old resident of Pelican, on charges related to the advertising and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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Two Alaska State Troopers, Joseph Miller and Jason Woodruff, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating civil rights during an incident that took place in May 2024.
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A Ketchikan man has been sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a felon during a domestic violence incident.
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An Anchorage resident, Thurman Reed, 67, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking large amounts of illegal drugs and possessing a firearm connected to his drug crimes.
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An Eagle River resident, Michael Koetter, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and will remain under supervised release for life after pleading guilty to several child exploitation charges.
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An Anchorage man, Richard Dougherty, 43, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to producing and possessing child pornography involving multiple minors known to him.
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A Kotzebue man, Jesse Hadley, 33, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually exploiting a minor female in Bethel by surreptitiously filming her and possessing child pornography.
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An Anchorage man has been sentenced to an additional 20 years in federal prison for leading a drug trafficking organization responsible for distributing over eight kilograms of illegal drugs throughout Alaska.
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A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted a Fairbanks resident on charges related to firearms trafficking, cocaine distribution, and possessing a machinegun during a drug trafficking crime.
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An Anchorage physician and her husband have pleaded guilty to charges involving a $12.5 million health care fraud scheme and evasion of over $4 million in taxes. Dr. Claribel Tan, 61, and Daniel Tan, 70, operated a rheumatology clinic in Anchorage...
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A man from Shaktoolik, Alaska, was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison and an additional 30 years of supervised release after being convicted of sexually exploiting three minors to produce child pornography and cyberstalking four...
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About a week ago, severe flooding caused by the remnants of Typhoon Halong struck Alaska’s western coastline.
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A Wasilla man has pleaded guilty to distributing carfentanil, a powerful synthetic opioid, which led to the death of a 16-year-old girl and the near fatal overdose of another adult.
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A Pennsylvania man has been charged with seven counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Alaska’s 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program.
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A Chinese national residing illegally in the United States has been charged with participating in an international drug trafficking conspiracy that involved shipping methamphetamine from Mexico into the U.S. and then to New Zealand using a virtual...
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A Fairbanks resident, George Romero, 37, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing firearms and body armor while on parole.