Troopers Conducting High Visibility Enforcement Effort
Click It or Ticket Campaign to run through June 6 May 16, 2022 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers will be conducting additional traffic patrols through June 6th as part of the Click It or Ticket campaign. Nationwide it is estimated that about 15,000 lives were saved in 2017 by motorists […]
Alaska State Troopers Announce Change in Sawyer Cipolla Search Strategy
May 14, 2022 (Kodiak, AK)— On Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 12:12 pm, the Alaska State Troopers were alerted that 7-year-old Sawyer Cipolla had gone missing from his home on Forest Drive in Kodiak. Law enforcement agencies and first responders from across Kodiak Island immediately responded to the area and started an intense multi-day search […]
May is Building Safety Month
This year focuses on benefits of building codes May 2, 2022 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy proclaimed May as Building Safety Month in Alaska. This is the 42nd annual Building Safety Month, a worldwide campaign presented by the International Code Council, its members, and partners to promote building safety. This year’s campaign, “Safety […]
Multi-Agency HIDTA Taskforces Seize Large Amounts of Fatal Fentanyl
Two Separate Operations Seize 4,700 Counterfeit Fentanyl Pills April 28, 2022 (Anchorage, AK)— Two Alaska High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Taskforces seized over $356,000 worth of illegal narcotics in Southeast Alaska and Southcentral Alaska this week. The two seizures are among the largest fentanyl seizures in Alaska history. On April 26, 2022, at approximately […]
Department of Public Safety Hires MMIP Investigator
Investigator Anne Sears returns to DPS to lead MMIP Efforts April 18, 2022 (Anchorage, AK)— The Alaska Department of Public Safety has hired former Alaska State Trooper Anne Sears to lead the Department’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative. Investigator Sears will work on unsolved murders and missing persons cases that involve Indigenous persons […]
2022 Studded Tire Deadline Approaching
Spring-time conditions are here on Alaska’s roads April 12, 2022 (Anchorage, AK) – The deadline to change out studded vehicle tires to drive on Alaska’s roads is approaching fast. Alaskans living below the 60 North Latitude line, including Southeast, the Alaska Peninsula, and Kodiak, must change out studded tires to drive on Alaska roadways by […]
Operation Northern Solstice Results in Arrest
Fairbanks man arrested on child pornography charges April 4, 2022, (ANCHORAGE) – A multi-agency task force arrested a Fairbanks man on possession of child pornography charges during a multi-day operation in Interior Alaska in February 2022. 28-year-old Fairbanks resident Reuben Spencer was indicted March 29th by a grand jury on 15 counts of possession of […]
Don’t Let Your Luck Run Out by Driving Impaired
Remember: Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving March 16, 2022 (Anchorage, AK) —However you plan to celebrate this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure you and your friends get home safe by designating a sober driver, calling a cab, or spending the night. There will be additional Alaska State Troopers on patrol looking for intoxicated and dangerous […]
Department of Public Safety Begins Owed DNA Collection
Troopers and Local Law Enforcement Actively Working to Collect Owed DNA February 14, 2022 (Anchorage, AK)— The Alaska Department of Public Safety and our local and state law enforcement partners have begun collecting nearly 20,000 DNA samples that are lawfully owed to the State of Alaska. In August 2021, Governor Dunleavy announced the new initiative […]
Alaska State Troopers Conduct Prostitution Sting
Trooper Special Crimes Investigation Unit Operation Contacted and Charged 22 Men January 24, 2022 (Anchorage, AK)— The Alaska State Troopers Special Crimes Investigation Unit (SCIU) conducted multiple prostitution patron stings in Fairbanks and Anchorage in January 2022 resulting in charges against 22 men that attempted to solicit sex. Troopers posed as women soliciting sex for […]