Fugitive guide slapped with 38 charges

MAT-SU — An Anchorage hunting guide who cut his ankle monitor and ran in October 2012 and was found hiding under a bed in Big Lake after an eight-day search has been formally charged with three felonies and 35 misdemeanors.

Alaska State Troopers say their investigation into hunting guide Tony Roberts, 50, lasted nearly 10 months.

The felonies include defrauding creditors in his attempts to avoid paying $160,000 in child support, falsifying business records, and criminal mischief for using a grinder to cut off his ankle monitor. The misdemeanors include everything from driving on a revoked license to flying without a pilot’s license to guiding without a license and illegal bear baiting.

“A 10-month investigation revealed evidence of Roberts conducting several illegally guided hunts with unwitting sportsmen from numerous Lower 48 states over the past four years. Some of the hunts even occurred while Roberts was awaiting trial for other wildlife offenses or was awaiting sentencing,” an AST press release says.

They say he has a 25-year history of convictions for wildlife crimes and has also racked up several drunken driving convictions and a previous felony for trying to avoid those child support payments.