FROM THE BLOTTER: Woman who died in fire identified

BIG LAKE — Alaska State Troopers report that on Friday the State Medical Examiner was able to conclusively identify the woman who died in a house fire last week.

Patricia M. Bosch, 78, died when a fire destroyed her home on South Horseshoe Lake Road on Aug. 22. The medical examiner identified her using dental records.

Fire officials said the blaze started in the woman’s bedroom, and that she was known to have been a smoker and to use an oxygen tank to help her breathe. Nobody noticed the fire until it had progressed too far for firefighters to get to where she was in the structure.

Threats land

man in jail

MAT-SU — A Wasilla man was jailed Tuesday morning after troopers say he drove drunk to a business and threatened to shoot people working there.

The call to respond to the business on Whiting Circle, just across the Parks Highway from Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, came in at 11:20 a.m., troopers report. Troopers believe Mark Larson, 58, of Wasilla, threatened to shoot three employees with a handgun.

He was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $20,000 bail, charged with multiple assault counts, weapons misconduct, drunken driving and driving on a suspended license. Jail records Saturday morning showed he was still incarcerated.

Meth lab discovered, three arrested

BIG LAKE — Troopers arrested three people Monday, alleging they were cooking methamphetamine in a garage.

According to a trooper press statement, the Mat-Su Narcotic Team arrested Erik Christian Anderson, 33, Blake Anderson, 19, and Tracy Lynn Noordhoek, 27, and seized a meth lab from the garage of the trio’s Big Lake Home.

Each was charged with making and possessing meth, and with buying certain chemicals to make it.