One person is dead following a hit-and-run incident discovered early Wednesday morning on West Rezanof Drive near Pier III. The Kodiak Police Department responded to a call at approximately 6:20 a.m. from a citizen reporting a person laying on Rezanof near Pier III, which is the dock with the big crane. According to a release from KPD issued at noon …
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by Alaska Public Radio Network Staff, with special thanks to Casey Grove A jury has again handed down guilty verdicts for 68-year-old James Michael Wells, charged in the 2012 murders of two coworkers at a U.S. Coast Guard communications station in Kodiak. Wells was accused of fatally shooting his fellow civilian antenna rigger, Richard Belisle, 51, and their supervisor, Petty …
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Closing arguments are expected Monday in the double-murder re-trial of a Kodiak man, after which the case will go to the jury for deliberations, according to legal documents posted online by the prosecution. James Michael Wells is on trial for the 2012 murder of two co-workers at the Coast Guard Communication Station at Buskin Lake. In the first trial, Wells …
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Location of the shooting on Thursday afternoon. (Source: Google Maps) Police responded to a 911 call yesterday afternoon from a shooting victim on the corner of Birch and Hemlock. “About 2:49 pm, we received a 911 call from a male individual claiming to have been shot. He was at the corner of Birch and Hemlock. “Lieutenant Francis de la Fuente, …
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Today is Day 9 of an appeal being heard in Anchorage in the case of a Kodiak man convicted more than five years ago of killing two co-workers at the Kodiak Communication Station located on Anton Larsen Bay Road. Click link below to hear Maggie Wall’s report. Jury selection for the retrial for James Michael Wells began Sept. 9. …
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Report from KUCB’s Laura Kraegel in Unalaska Seven months after a U.S. Coast Guard seaman was found dead in Unalaska a fellow member has been charged with his murder — and is now awaiting court martial proceedings. 19-year-old Seaman Ethan Tucker was charged Wednesday with the murder of Ethan Kelch — another 19-year-old seaman, who was also stationed on the …
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The Coast Guard last week held non-judicial hearings which stem from on ongoing investigation begun in fall of 2018 into drug activity in the Coast Guard in Kodiak. Sixteen members were ‘held accountable’ on charges related to illegal possession and consumption of drugs. Because the Coast Guard has a zero-tolerance policy, all face administrative separation from service. Another nine members …
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