Man can’t keep away from gas station

MEADOW LAKES — A Wasilla man arrested Thursday for trespassing while out on bail in another trespassing case and wanted on warrants in two more, has made appearances in police reports for almost five years, nearly always for trespassing.

The first report in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman’s Police Beat archives regarding David Gilligan, 42, dates back to May 20, 2009.

“AST responded to the Holiday Gas Station at Mile 49 of the Parks Highway for a report intoxicated person causing a disturbance,” that report states.

Two years later he was arrested three times from February through June for trespassing at Carrs in Wasilla.

The list contains trespassing arrests from Tailgater’s Bar and Grill and the Chevron Station in Wasilla. There’s a disorderly conduct arrest from Wasilla Fred Meyer. Since 2009, he’s been arrested for the charge 15 times at various places.

But the business from which he is most frequently forcibly removed from the premises? That Holiday gas station at Mile 49, Parks Highway. That’s where he was picked up on Thursday.

“David Gilligan, 42, of Wasilla, had entered the business after having been trespassed from the business previously. Gilligan was also found to be on conditions of release from a previous arrest for trespassing at the business. Gilligan also had two outstanding warrants for his arrest for trespassing,” troopers report in a press release.

The last time he’d been removed from that gas station was just two weeks prior when troopers were summoned there around 3 a.m., Feb. 21.

“Troopers received a report of a male trespassing at Mile 49 Holiday located on the Parks Highway. Investigation revealed David Gilligan, age 42, of Wasilla had a current trespass from the store,” that report reads.

As of Thursday afternoon Gilligan was listed as an inmate of the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility.

Contact Andrew Wellner at 352-2270 or andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com.