Assault

A man from Eagle, Alaska will spend nearly two years behind bars for a being a felon in possession of a firearm after he serves two years for a 2011 assault. 53-year-old Raymond Spruell was sentenced Friday to 23 months, according U.S. District Court. The court said Spruell will serve the gun sentence consecutive to his assault sentence when he received 24 months. In November 2011, Alaska State Troopers responded to his residence in Eagle after receiving reports of an assault.

A man who Anchorage police say drove a stolen car through an intersection earlier this month, striking an SUV and leaving three people including himself in critical condition, was arrested upon his release Tuesday from a local hospital for treatment of hip injuries. APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker says 24-year-old Joplin, Mo. resident Kevin Wright has been charged with first-degree and second-degree assault, first-degree vehicle theft, felony eluding and driving without a valid driver's license.

Anchorage Police have arrested two men for sexually assaulting a 29-year-old woman who was found dead last week, at an apartment on the 2800 block of East Tudor Road.   Jesse Hess, 32, and George Thomas, 56, face charges for second degree sexual assault.  Charging documents say that both men had sex with the woman while she was incapacitated and possibly deceased. Police say dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call from a man who identified himself as Hess at about 1:30 Friday afternoon.  He told the dispatcher that he only knew the woman by her first name -- and that she was unconscious and not breathing, after drinking the night before.  When police arrived at Hess' apartment, they found the woman naked and partially covered with what appeared to be a sleeping bag or a blanket.  Police found blood on the woman, the mattress and a headboard.

A fugitive sought by U.S. marshals for failure to appear in court on charges including child endangerment is also wanted in Palmer for allegedly attempting to kill his wife, according to Anchorage police. APD spokesperson Anita Shell says Jeramie Micha Sharp, 34, missed an August change-of-plea hearing. He was charged with endangering the welfare of two children, as well as DUI and fourth-degree assault. According to Shell, Sharp has also been charged with attempted murder and multiple counts of assault in the Palmer case, which involved him allegedly firing a gun at his wife.

A jury convicted a man on all 12 counts he faced Wednesday afternoon in the rape of several women between 2001 and 2004, cases which Anchorage police say had gone cold until the discovery of DNA evidence. APD spokesperson Anita Shell says Richard Dorsey was convicted on charges including four counts of first-degree sexual assault, two counts of first-degree attempted sexual assault, one count of second-degree assault and five counts of third-degree assault. A count of fourth-degree assault in an alleged April 2004 assault was dismissed before the case went to trial, due to the statute of limitations on the charge.

Alaska State Troopers arrested a 16-year-old Homer boy Sunday evening in connection with a sexual assault on a 17-year-old boy last month for which two men are already in custody. According to a Monday AST dispatch, troopers arrested the unidentified boy at about 7:15 p.m. Sunday. He has been remanded to the Kenai Youth Facility on a charge of second-degree sexual assault. Brothers Anthony Resetarits, a 20-year-old University of Alaska Anchorage student, and Joseph Resetarits, an 18-year-old former Homer High School football player, have also been charged with the same offense.

Anchorage police say a man sought in connection with a violent assault that left a woman in critical condition Monday has turned himself in, after being charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. According to APD spokesperson Anita Shell, 21-year-old Bukurim Miftari surrendered to police through his attorney at 6:10 p.m. Tuesday, entering custody following media reports of an extensive search for him. Detectives learned that Miftari had been in a domestic relationship with the victim, 30-year-old Kristen Reid, which Reid had been trying to end. She was found unconscious in a ditch on Fairbanks Street, near an abandoned vehicle Monday morning; officers found blood in the vehicle and on the roadway.

Anchorage police say a woman critically injured during a Monday assault was shot in the head and may not survive her injuries, after her former boyfriend surrendered to officers and was arrested on attempted-murder charges in the case Tuesday night. According to APD spokesperson Anita Shell, police were informed at about 5:45 a.m. Monday that a blue Chevrolet Tahoe SUV was “suspiciously parked” on Fairbanks Street, north of International Airport Road. Responding officers found 30-year-old Kristen Reid in a nearby ditch, partially clothed and suffering a gunshot wound to the head.

The Anchorage Police Department is looking for a man who is a person of interest in critically injuring a local woman in Midtown on Monday morning. Police are currently searching for Bukurim Miftari, 21, after he was seen in the area of Old Seward Highway and Grange Street. Miftari fled after police attempted to make contact with him, according to a press release. Miftari is thought to be on foot and is considered armed and dangerous, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 immediately.

A former Anchorage firefighter has been arrested for a sex crime charge filed in Colorado. Anchorage police spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker says Kenneth Outten was taken into custody Thursday night on a warrant. Court records from El Paso County, Colorado show Outten faces a charge of sexual assault of a child under the age of 15, by one in a position of trust, allegedly committed in 1995. Lindsey Whitt, the communications director for the Municipality of Anchorage, says the 43-year-old resigned from the fire department Friday.