COURT BRIEFS: Nov. 7, 2017

Incident at Best Western leads to arrest of Nome man

WASILLA — An incident at the Best Western hotel on Lake Lucille Drive in Wasilla on Oct. 21 resulted in Ralph S. Anderson III, of Nome, charged with two charges of assault in the fourth degree and another charge of criminal mischief in the fifth degree.

Wasilla police responded to a call of an assault in progress, and upon arrival, police say they encountered Anderson, who told them he and his wife had been in a verbal argument that turned physical. Anderson told police his wife hit him multiple times in the head, causing him to hit her once in the head and push her down to restrain her.

But another woman, who said she was in the room with them as they were all drinking, gave a different account. She told police Anderson struck his wife in the face with a bottle, and then tried to strike her in the face, but missed.

The witness said Anderson continued to swing the bottle, causing a lamp to break and putting holes in the hotel wall.

Anderson was arrested on the three charges and booked into Mat-Su Pretrial, ultimately released on $500 cash performance bond pending trial.

Pair arrested on burglary charges

On Nov. 2, Allen Robert Miranda, 31, and Sara Ann Mitchell, 26, were each arrested for theft in the second degree — Mitchell for theft of property or services valued at greater than $750, and Miranda for that charge, as well as a count of theft or property that was a firearm or explosive.

No other information was available in court records.

Mitchell and Miranda are scheduled slated to appear in court again on Nov. 28 at 11 a.m.