Public Safety Report — April 5
Published Saturday, April 5, 2008
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• Leo L. Dunson Jr., 22, of Fort Wainwright, was charged with third-degree assault after a woman said he threw a large electronic device at her head on Thursday. When she attempted to call police, Dunson broke her phone, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. He was also charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief and interfering with the report of a crime involving domestic violence.
A gash on the woman’s head required five stitches.
• David G. Huntington, 19, of Galena, was charged with fourth-degree assault for allegedly assaulting a family member March 24 in Galena. During the dispute, Huntington also allegedly threw a 2-month-old puppy down a flight of stairs. The puppy appeared to only have minor injuries. Huntington also was charged with cruelty to animals.
• Galena police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted his father Wednesday.
Donvoan Lee Huntington, 25, has been charged with one count of fourth-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree criminal mischief.
Huntington’s father told police that Huntington was intoxicated and vandalized his truck in an attempt to intimidate him.
In February, police responded to another dispute at the home in which the elder Huntington stabbed his son in the scalp with a kitchen knife, according to Galena police records. No charges were filed because it was deemed an act of self-defense.
Anyone with information about the younger Huntington’s whereabouts is asked to call Galena Police at 656-2177 or 656-0911.
• Samantha Lee Jones, 19, of Fairbanks, was charged with fourth-degree assault after her boyfriend said she started hitting him when she tried leave their apartment.
An officer was dispatched the apartment, but found the man being pursued down Denali Street by Jones, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. When contacted by police, she continued to loudly yell profanities despite warnings. She also was charged with disorderly conduct.
The man told police the pair had been dating for two years but had only lived together for a week.
• A University of Alaska Fairbanks student allegedly threatened several people with a knife after finding water on the floor outside of his dorm room.
Jeffrey M. Kimoktoak, 18, of Fairbanks, has been charged with third-degree assault.
Kimoktoak admitted to UAF police that he entered the room at Moore Hall where several students were and threatened to “gut them” and “cut their fingers off,” according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
He was also charged with reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and minor consumption.
• A Fairbanks man allegedly choked his girlfriend after she laughed while they were having sex Thursday morning, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
Troy Lynn Turner Jr., 25, of Fairbanks, has been charged with three counts of fourth-degree assault.
After the woman laughed, Turner “freaked out” and attempted to choke and headbutt her, according to the complaint. He then left the home but returned about 10 minutes later. The woman would not let him in, but Turner broke the door and began choking her and hitting her again, according to the complaint. When her father interfered, Turner allegedly struck him as well.
Turner then left the home with a necklace he ripped off of her, according to the complaint. He also was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief and third-degree theft.
• A Galena school teacher has been charged with assaulting one of her students.
The alleged incident occurred in early February at Huntington Middle School.
Cyndee Wightman, 37, faces one count of fourth-degree assault.
Police say that Wightman, a middle school teacher, pushed a 12-year-old student to the ground and put her knee to his back. Wightman refused to give a statement to authorities, Galena Police Chief John Milan said.
• A 17-year-old Galena girl was charged with fourth-degree assault for allegedly assaulting another girl. The incident occurred March 23 in Galena. The victim sustained minor injuries. Police did not release the 17-year-old’s name because of her age.
DUI
• Sean Chesnut, 21, of Fort Wainwright, was charged with driving under the influence after Fairbanks police observed him weaving late Thursday night on the Steese Expressway near Airport Way. Chesnut initially denied drinking. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.143, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 to operate a motor vehicle.
• Kevin Michael Coffey, 20, of North Pole, was charged with driving under the influence after Fairbanks police spotted him speeding early Tuesday morning on the Richardson Highway near 12 Mile Village. The officer was on his way home from work when Coffey’s vehicle pulled up to his at approximately 90 mph, passed him and then hit the brakes. The vehicle then began to swerve in its lane, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
A chemical test found Coffey’s breath-alcohol content to be 0.099.
• Ann Marie Fisher, 45, of Wasilla, was charged with driving under the influence after Alaska State Troopers came upon her vehicle parked on the side of the Parks Highway on Tuesday near Mile 192. A preliminary breath test found her breath-alcohol content to be 0.094, but after five attempts, she was unable to provide a valid Datamaster sample, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. Fisher also was charged with refusal to submit to a chemical test.
• Kurt William Laiti, 50, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers witnessed him change lanes without signaling early Friday morning on Farmers Loop. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.172.
• Miguel Medina, 26, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after authorities found his vehicle stuck on the median of the Mitchell Expressway near University Avenue early Thursday morning. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.117.
• Donald A. Schuelke, 33, of Delta Junction, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers spotted him driving with a modified exhaust pipe late Wednesday night on Kimball Street near Harper Avenue in Delta Junction. A preliminary breath test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.539, but the test was not properly calibrated, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
After being read an implied consent warning, Schuelke refused to take a Datamaster test. He also was charged with refusal to submit to a chemical test.
Failure to register
• Fairbanks police called to a dispute about diapers Tuesday discovered a man out of compliance with the state’s sex offender registry.
Gary L. Cooper, 47, of Fairbanks, has been charged with felony failure to register as a sex offender.
Police were called to the home after Cooper would not let the woman who used to live there inside to search the residence for the diapers, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
• James D. Nathaniel, 59, of Fairbanks, was charged with second-degree failure to register as a sex offender after Fairbanks police found him asleep in a parking lot after drinking with two other men and an identification check found he was out of compliance with the state’s registry.
Indecent exposure
• A woman told Fairbanks police her daughter saw a man exposing himself and looking in mailboxes along Esquire Avenue on Thursday afternoon.
The subject was described as a male wearing a black sweatshirt with a zipper and jeans, who had just been dropped off by the Community Service Patrol.
Police were unable to locate anyone matching that description in the area.
Resisting arrest
• Susan Louise Hockenburg, 42, of Fairbanks, was charged with resisting arrest after she allegedly started kicking a Fairbanks police officer who was taking her into custody Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of disorderly conduct.
Solicitation
• James Francis Gourd, 59, of Fairbanks, was charged with one count of solicitation after he allegedly offered a man $500 on Thursday to break all the windows of a home.
Theft
• A woman told Fairbanks police she dropped her wallet Thursday while getting into her car at the AT&T store on the Old Steese Highway.
Another woman told her that a man picked it up and took it inside, but a clerk said no one returned a wallet that day. Fairbanks police are investigating.
• Several items were reported stolen Thursday morning from a car parked at the Alaska Club South.
Community Discussion
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oh this page is so good I dont even know where to begin commenting! Im laughing too hard! The guy having sex with some girl, and her father is in the house? OH my lord! too funny. Sorry.
"A Fairbanks man allegedly choked his girlfriend after she laughed while they were having sex Thursday morning, according to a criminal complaint filed in court."
Hi-larious! Not for the folks involved, of course, but it's still really freaking funny.
hahaha she laught
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I think its time to have that little talk with the daughter
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Thats not real! No way, I think the Miner inserted that for comic effect.
And to think people wanted them to stop printing this! Peeing on sugar, choking after sex.....AWESOME STUFF
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Since this section is obviously being monitored, will someone from the FDNM please tell us why the comment section from the "dragging death" article has been removed?
ditto on above comment. i think that is something many of us would like to discuss.
This is the 3rd time I've noticed articles having the comment section removed mysteriously with no explanation... I suppose the newsminer staff are deciding which articles we can or can not comment on. Either that, or it could be some sort of glitch in the system....
Now tell me Mr.Troy Lynn Turner Jr. didn't get his just reward by having his name in the paper. Now all of Fairbanks is wondering why she laughed.....
That was being speculated on earlier, but the comments were removed.
Galena: tourist capital, USA.
If you were reading the comments in that drag death story, they were getting pretty ugly ... I wonder if there's a limit on the number of comments that are removed before they close the comments altogether. It'd kinda make sense that way.
I am an early riser. Seems like there might have been two that I read. Can't remember the gist of them. Didn't seem like they were nasty. But I can see the potential...
If so, I wish the FDNM would just remove the comments as they usually do.
If after only one week of cohabitation, you find your significant other hitting you, and following you down the street trying to repeat the assault, while cursing at you, frothing at the mouth, and screaming, even AFTER the cops arrive, it's usually a pretty good indicator that maybe the 'moving in together' part was a tad premature, if not inappropriate altogether.
I'm thinking that the next otherwise-logical move of a proposal concerning matrimony and children just became a really -bad- idea..... in a fairly clear sorta' way.
corinne - you need to suggest that policy change to the News-Miner staff. I think seeing a large number of removed comments would let people know there was a lot of ugliness associated with the topic. It would also serve to tell the authors of removed comments that what they said was unreasonable and/or in bad taste.
honeyhi - presumably the girl was over the age of 18, which brings a new dynamic to a parent-child relationship. Also, there are cases where retired or disabled parents have no choice but to depend on their children for shelter.
I think the opportunity to "comment" at all, as regards, police reports will sonn be elimiated from use on this site. If it isn't removed, it should be.
In fact, I see a law suit in the works. Some of these reports of crimes go to court. The comments made here could influense a jury or judge.
SO FDM,...I suggest you remove "comments" from Public safety report.
Some people don't have the intelligence to make a descent comment.
Yet MamaSan, you are participating! I, for one, am more encouraged to read the DNM and read it thoroughly because of the comments section. Good thing.
...and then there was a bad joke and someone scolding the joke teller and me scolding the scolder because the joke was tasteless, but not horrific.
Roger Rabbit. Gotta get some sleep now to be well rested for the AMs flagging.
Can't we -ALL- just get along????????!!!!! (Rodney King said that..)
Jail time, why? we just made this persons future. Want a date, not! I don't think he will live this down anytime soon.
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I am glad that someone realized that my comment was a feeble attempt at humor and not worthy of admonishment, thanks Im usually right :)
To THE_TRUTH be careful, you are borderline by comparison to my comment. Who does the censoring for the NM any way, Tipper Gore?
JB:
Bet ya two-bits it'll get the ax soon...
my comment got erased cause i said the judges constantly let women beating, child molesters back out on the streets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that kinda sums up everything i was letting out yesterday!!!!!
Anybody notice that the comment section on the abortion bill wasn't an option?
I didn't want to comment, but I think it's notable that the FDNM is choosing now which articles will be allowed commentary.
My advice to Mr. Turner......plastic surgury and a name change.
What in hades is a Datamaster sample? DNA? The new licenses? What?
Datamaster is the name of the machine used to administer the breath test.
ya know these guys that beat on women are all a bunch of worthless pieces of trash and there should be some kind of real punishment for these punks
It makes it so easy to choose an "Idiot of The Day" on our radio show, thanks to the diligence of the FDNM. Thanks again, now start making Sourdough Jack funny again.
Maybe she started laughing because she remembered a joke from last night......everyone is so quick to judge! lol
I have to say some of the stuff you read in hear is very comical at times.
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