DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
June 14, 2017 Police Blotter
The following calls were received by Sitka police by 8 a.m. today:
June 13
A red Trek 990 bike found in the 1500 block of SMC was turned in.
A SMC business reported a theft.
At 3:25 p.m. caller said some intoxicated men were leaning against hte window of a downtown business and one of them had urinated on the building. They had left when police arrived.
At 4:16 p.m. a caller reported finding a used syringe on the ground outside the SMW post office.
A girls Raleigh bike left in the 1800 block of HPR for a week was turned in.
At 5:16 p.m. a caller complained his neighbor’s car had a broken muffler and the noise wakes him up. He said the neighbor told him he knew the muffler needed fixing but he couldn’t afford it.
At 10:17 p.m. a caller said two men who appeared to be inebriated were trying to get into a small boat at Swan Lake and one nearly fell down. One man said he’d take care of the other man. They decided against going out in the canoe, and left on foot.
At 11:23 p.m. a caller said upstairs neighbors on Indian River Road were playing loud games and dropping stuff. He said he had complained to the landlord multiple times and would again in the morning but wanted police to ask them to be quiet that night.
June 14
At 2:25 a.m. a store in the 1800 block of HPR said a patron who was swaying and had slurred speech had driven off in a silver truck. Officers found the vehicle at the owner’s home.
At 5:32 a.m. a caller reported hearing four gunshots from the area of Bahovec Court. A second caller reported shooting a bear. See story on Page 1.
In Court
Brandon D. Ledbetter, 34, on charges of assault in the second degree, injury with a weapon, and assault in the third degree, cause fear of injury with a weapon, was sentenced to 24 months with 11 months suspended, placed on restrictions and will be on probation four years. He was found guilty April 1 in a jury trial of stabbing another man in a fight in a bar on Aug. 12, 2016.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.