http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140501/two-alaska-state-troopers-killed-tanana-shooting
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local...cle_d72d0a56-d19d-11e3-9647-001a4bcf6878.html
So sad. These troopers were sent out to investigate a gun crime that actually happened yesterday. I've been out there a dozen times and can just imagine how this happened. Tanana does not have an armed police officer only a village public safety officer. If something serious happens they've got to call the Troopers who then have to arrange for an aircraft to fly them in. I wrote this about my first trip out there.
"The first time I went to Tanana to pick up a prisoner I had to walk from the airport over to the little police station they had. Then had to walk my prisoner in handcuffs back to the airport. They had two jail cells. The one on the right was stacked from the floor to the ceiling with cases of booze. The one in front of me held the prisoner. The village police officer told me that the booze was the inventory for the city owned liqour store. He said they had so many burglaries of the liqour store it was just easier to keep the booze in the police station. He said "we arrest for them for public intoxication and disorderly conduct and then lock them up in a cell next to the object of their desires. Kinda cruel don't ya think?"
I asked him why he hadn't just brought the prisoner to Fairbanks himself since it would have been a free flight. He said that a couple of months before he'd gone to Fairbanks and got arrested on a DWI. He said as part of his plea agreement he wasn't allowed to go back there for 6 months. He said he really didn't mind since he got to keep his job. He told me he was really a pretty good guy when he was sober. Asked my Sgt. about it when I got back. Said he was the only guy in the village that would take the job and wasn't afraid of arresting his own relatives if he had to.
Tanana is where the reality show "Yukon Men" on The Discovery Channel is filmed.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/yukon-men
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local...cle_d72d0a56-d19d-11e3-9647-001a4bcf6878.html
So sad. These troopers were sent out to investigate a gun crime that actually happened yesterday. I've been out there a dozen times and can just imagine how this happened. Tanana does not have an armed police officer only a village public safety officer. If something serious happens they've got to call the Troopers who then have to arrange for an aircraft to fly them in. I wrote this about my first trip out there.
"The first time I went to Tanana to pick up a prisoner I had to walk from the airport over to the little police station they had. Then had to walk my prisoner in handcuffs back to the airport. They had two jail cells. The one on the right was stacked from the floor to the ceiling with cases of booze. The one in front of me held the prisoner. The village police officer told me that the booze was the inventory for the city owned liqour store. He said they had so many burglaries of the liqour store it was just easier to keep the booze in the police station. He said "we arrest for them for public intoxication and disorderly conduct and then lock them up in a cell next to the object of their desires. Kinda cruel don't ya think?"
I asked him why he hadn't just brought the prisoner to Fairbanks himself since it would have been a free flight. He said that a couple of months before he'd gone to Fairbanks and got arrested on a DWI. He said as part of his plea agreement he wasn't allowed to go back there for 6 months. He said he really didn't mind since he got to keep his job. He told me he was really a pretty good guy when he was sober. Asked my Sgt. about it when I got back. Said he was the only guy in the village that would take the job and wasn't afraid of arresting his own relatives if he had to.
Tanana is where the reality show "Yukon Men" on The Discovery Channel is filmed.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/yukon-men