Police Blotter
The following calls were logged as of 8 a.m. today.
June 5
At 10 a.m. a caller reported two dogs running at large had scratched her vehicle in the 400 block of Marine Street.
At 12:09 p.m. a downtown business reported a shoplifter. A suspect was trespassed.
At 1:58 a.m. a caller reported a theft from a car at Eliason Harbor. Police are investigating.
At 6:45 p.m. a man was reported passed out in his truck at Moller ball field.
At 9:16 p.m. two men were reported having an argument on DeArmond Street. Police found it was an argument only.
Sitka Police
Matthew J. Larue, 22, was charged Monday afternoon with assault in the fourth degree, domestic violence.
Joseph J. Peratrovich, 31, was charged Monday afternoon with assault in the fourth degree, domestic violence.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received five ambulance calls Monday.
Coast Guard
A helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka on Monday medevacked a 76-year-old man apparently having cardiac problems aboard the cruise ship Sapphire Princess, and flew him to Juneau for a Guardian flight to Anchorage.
The helicopter had been in the Glacier Bay area to oversee the evacuation of about 78 passengers and crew members off a small cruise ship, Wilderness Discovery, which had caught fire. Passengers had been tendered to the Sapphire Princess, where the Coast Guard picked up the ailing passenger.
On another medevac call Monday, the second Coast Guard helicopter picked up a 55-year-old man with a medical emergency in Skagway around 10:10 p.m., and flew him to Juneau, where he was flown to Anchorage for care by a private medevac company.
Other medevacs over the weekend, were:
– Friday, for a 75-year-old man in Haines, with stroke symptoms. He was flown to Juneau, and transferred to an Airlift Northwest flight, to Anchorage.
– Saturday, for a 76-year-old cruise ship passenger with chest pain. He was hoisted off the Ovation, when the ship was in Dixon Entrance, northwest of Graham Island Canada. He was flown to Ketchikan, and taken by Guardian Flight services to Seattle for care.
– Sunday, for a 52-year old Wrangell man with a possible brain bleed, who was picked up by a Coast Guard helicopter, brought to Sitka, then flown by Guardian to Anchorage.
Wildlife Troopers
Micah Maxwell, 46, of Sitka, was fined $170 for being in possession of five abalone less than the 3.5-inch minimum size, on June 5.
