Federal prosecutors say Walter William Onstad admitted to leading a private chat group called “Anything Goes” that distributed child porn online. As its administrator, Onstad allegedly solicited and approved both members and images on the group, run through the messaging app, Kik.
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Swastikas, racial slurs and genitalia were spray-painted on a pavilion at Houghtaling Elementary School this past weekend. It’s the third prominent incident of hateful and racist vandalism near a Ketchikan school in the past six months.
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Ketchikan’s City Council will take up a resolution Thursday that would ask state lawmakers to protect law enforcement officers from discrimination under state law.
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“Make no mistake: this resolution was drafted as a direct backlash to a minority group challenging those in power and demanding that they deserve equal rights and protections under the law,” one resident said during public comment.
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In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, the City of Ketchikan released a statement condemning racism and police brutality. But some members of Ketchikan’s City Council wanted to go further, leading to pushback from members of the police department and members of the public.
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“Nobody’s taking it seriously,” said Ketchikan hardware store manager Janice Walker. “And why should they? If nobody’s going to do anything, why bother?”
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When police arrived at Herman Brown III’s door with a search warrant, they were following up on a report of an illegal handgun. Brown’s a felon, and felons can’t have pistols. What Ketchikan Police’s Andy Berntson says they found during the Jan. 24 search, though, was a small arsenal: a semi-automatic rifle with thousands of rounds of ammunition, plus bomb-making materials.
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Ketchikan police announced Friday afternoon that they’ve seized around $1 million worth of illegal drugs found inside a suspected dealer’s bank safe-deposit box.
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