Alaska State Troopers

The court said the lengthy sentence for 32-year-old Daniel Nick was due to a history of violent behavior and past convictions involving the same victim.

Capt. Andrew Merrill, commander for the Alaska State Troopers massive C Detachment, said that he is happy to be back in Bethel as part of a push by the agency to make rural Alaska a priority.

A man died in Emmonak early on Nov. 13 after he was stabbed while trying to force entry into a residence, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Troopers said that 28-year-old Peter Napoka allegedly fired at multiple people and struck another man in the foot before surrendering.

One of two men being held at the Mountain Village Police Department, resident Lawrence Chiklak, who had just turned 39 years old the day prior, died as a result of the fire.

Sixty-eight-year-old Joseph Kashatok was convicted in February of retaining images of child sex abuse material on a USB device in 2019.

The state says a state trooper who fired two shots at Nick Beebe in the village of Eek acted within the law. Beebe is now charged with murder.

Thirty-three-year-old Marvin Nicori has been charged with multiple felonies for a Jan. 28 incident that resulted in the theft of as much as $50,000 in cash from the Kwethluk Inc. building, according to troopers.

Twenty-five-year-old Bryan Nicolai was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for an incident in which he pulled a community fire alarm located in Kwethluk’s public safety building and threatened community members with multiple rifles.

A Hooper Bay man is accused of killing two 18-year-old women last week in the Western Alaska village. Emmonak Magistrate Judge Darlene Johnson-Edwards has set bail at $1.5 million out of “concern [...] for the safety of the community.”