Crime

A former Ravn Alaska supervisor was recently sentenced for his role in stealing mail, including 343 computers, from airplanes bound for villages. Some of those villages included St. Mary’s, Emmonak, Kotlik, Aniak, Alakanuk, Grayling, Kalskag, Koyuk, and Stebbins.

On New Year’s Day, Alaska State Troopers arrested 23-year-old Jonathan Thompson for a stabbing in St. Mary’s, according to a trooper’s report.

Thompson was charged with one count of assault in the first degree and one count of assault in the third degree.

Thompson was taken to the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Facility in Bethel; no bail has currently been set. The victim, who was said to be a household member of Thompson's, was medevaced for treatment.

A Kwethluk man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for biting off his the tip of his brother’s finger and assaulting a second person who tried to intervene. The second attack burst that victim’s bladder, according to a press release from state prosecutors.

This story will be updated as KYUK gets more information. 

The Bethel Police Department reported 61-year-old Daniel Smith missing on December 27. He's from Hooper Bay and was visiting Bethel this fall. Alaska State Troopers notifed BPD that Smith was missing on Dec. 21. 

Bethel Police Chief Burke Waldron says that Smith's brother and sister, Jonathan and Wilma Smith told BPD that they had not seen him since October or early November. He was last seen in Bethel during September and October. 

On December 8, a young man in Nunapitchuk stabbed a family member in the rear of the shoulder with an ulu, strangled another family member, and then assaulted a third, according to the Alaska State Troopers. The troopers responded to the attack from Bethel and say that alcohol played a role. 

Gov. Bill Walker tapped a Bethel lawyer to fill a Bethel Superior Court vacancy.

Terrence Haas currently works as an assistant public defender in Bethel, where he supervises both Bethel and Dillingham’s public defender offices.

Haas earned a law degree at the Roger Williams University School of Law in 2007, and clerked for the Rhode Island Supreme Court before coming to Bethel 10 years ago.

A Kwethluk man is being charged with the attempted murder of his uncle after a Thanksgiving Day hunting trip went bad.