Police Blotter Sitka Police Department logged the following calls over the weekend. June 13 A caller asked for a welfare check on an adult relative. Police found she was fine. Police found an inmate had violated a protection order by calling...
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20 YEARS AGO
June 2005
Greenpeace protesters, including seven from Sitka, pleaded guilty in federal court to obstructing or helping to obstruct a road during an anti-logging campaign in Southeast last summer. ... The Sitkans were Larry Edwards, Don Mueller, Larry Trani, Marian Allen, Woody Litman, Roland Wirth and Jack Ozment.
50 YEARS AGO
June 1975
Police Blotter: Two male juveniles were charged with minor consuming and turned over to their parents. The theft of a transmitter worth $500, meter equipment worth $20, a camera worth $20, and a Coleman stove worth $10 were stolen from Kasianna Island. A handgun worth $115 was reported stolen from Monastery Street.
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