Police Blotter
The following calls were recorded as of 8 a.m. today.
April 6
At 12:02 a.m. a man was found sleeping in a vehicle at Whale Park. He was told to move on.
At noon police stood by while someone left a residence.
At 2:08 p.m. an elderly woman using a walker was reported in the middle of the street near Keet Gooshi Heen. She was gone when officers arrived.
At 2:40 p.m. a man and a woman were reported yelling at the Crescent Harbor shelter. Officers found they were just having a conversation.
At 5:25 p.m. two men were reported having a fist fight at the skate park. When officers arrived, one man was on the ground and the other combatant, who witnesses didn’t identify, had left. The injured man was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and two women at the scene were given rides home.
April 7
At 12:27 a.m. a caller reported a loud argument in the 2700 block of HPR. Police found no assistance was required.
Sitka Police
Samuel S. James, 22, was charged Thursday with criminal mischief in the fifth degree.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received three ambulance calls Thursday and one early today.
Coast Guard
Two helicopter crews from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka went on back to back medevac flights Thursday.
In the first, an 81-year-old Haines woman with two emergency medical conditions was picked up at 2:25 p.m. and taken to Juneau for care at 3:19 p.m.
Just before the helicopter landed back in Sitka at 4:53 p.m. a call came in for a 56-year-old man in Klawock, who had an open fracture from a dislocated ankle. A new crew flying the same helicopter picked up the man and brought him to Sitka for care at SEARHC Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center.
Wildlife Troopers
Martin Mundell, 60, of Washington state, was fined $270 for allegedly failing to have a 2023 commercial crew license as required, while operating a commercial herring tender in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery, April 6.
