Anchorage man charged with big-game waste

PALMER — Alaska State Troopers say an Anchorage man living in a cabin in the Dan’s Creek area illegally shot three moose and only salvaged a little more than a half a moose worth of meat.

According to a statement released Friday, the case against Paul Blocher, 62, of Anchorage, was forwarded to the District Attorney’s office.

Troopers say they first talked to Blocher on April 26, at which time he told them he’d shot one cow moose around the end of March. That moose was found with half of the moose salvaged.

Troopers returned to speak with Blocher on Friday. This time, troopers report, he confessed to shooting the other two moose in February and salvaging only a small portion of one of them.

Blocher will be charged with three counts of taking a cow moose in a closed season, three of wasting big game and three of unlawful possession or transportation of moose, troopers say.

Drunk drivers draw felonies

WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers say two drivers, one following the other down the Parks Highway, were arrested for DUI Sunday.

Multiple complaints of a vehicle swerving into the wrong lane drew troopers to the area near the Vienna Woods Access Road at 3:29 p.m. They say they pulled over the first vehicle and found the driver, Jimmie Lynn Connell, 43, of Wasilla, to be intoxicated.

They also found that Chad Richards Job, 39, of Wasilla, was traveling with Connell, driving another car. Troopers say Job was also drunk.

Both men also had at least two prior drunken driving convictions in the last two years, making their most recent charges felonies. Connell was also charged with refusing a Breathalyzer test, and Job was found to have been wanted on a $2,000 warrant with the original charges of drunken driving, driving on a suspended license and resisting arrest.

Connell and Job were jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $7,000 and $11,000 bail respectively. Prison records Monday afternoon showed both were still in jail.

Teen jailed for stealing stairs

TALKEETNA — Alaska State Troopers say a Talkeetna man was arrested Sunday, charged with removing the stairs from outside staircases at Su-Valley High School.

According to a trooper press statement, Edward Anderson, 18, was spotted in the woods shortly before 11 p.m. when troopers were sent to check on a tip that the school might have been vandalized earlier that evening.

Troopers say they recognized Anderson and, though he fled, were able to reach him on his cell phone and convince him to come back. They say he and four accomplices had damaged 13 portable classrooms at the school by removing stairs from the exterior staircases.

Anderson was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility, charged with criminal mischief. His bail was set at $2,500.

Jail records Monday afternoon showed he was still in jail.