Story written and provided by Casey Grove with Alaska Public Media A jury will again deliberate the fate of a man charged in the 2012 murders of two co-workers at a Coast Guard Communications Station in Kodiak. It’s the second trial of 68-year-old James Michael Wells on charges that he shot to death his fellow civilian antenna rigger, Richard …
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The fate of a Kodiak man accused of the 2012 double-murder at the Coast Guard Communication Station is now in the hands of an Anchorage jury. James Michael Wells is on trial for the shooting deaths of two co-workers at the Coast Guard ComSta at Buskin Lake. Closing arguments concluded earlier today in the case that is being retried based …
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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 …
Read More »Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski took the opportunity during a Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing yesterday to express her condolences to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp over the deaths of two men last month at the ComSta (com-stay) here in Kodiak. "I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the very difficult situation the men and …
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