More arrests in double killing

MAT-SU — Police say they’ve arrested three more people in connection with a double homicide that killed a Wasilla resident and an Anchorage resident last month.

Tabitha Burton, 18, Elihue Gillespie, 24, and Christopher Gonzales, 26, all of Anchorage, are each charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting.

A fourth defendant, James Coven, 22, of Anchorage, alleged to have done the shooting, turned himself in Feb. 21. He’s charged with robbery, drug misconduct, and two counts of first-degree murder.

Matthew Nick Peterson, 19, of Wasilla, and Christon Shannon Lee, 19, of Anchorage, died in the shooting, in which numerous shots were fired in the early morning hours on Russian Jack Drive.

Anchorage Police Lt. Dave Parker said that the second-degree murder statute applies to anyone involved in a crime that led to a homicide.

“They were not the trigger-pullers but they were part of the plot to rip off the drugs,” Parker said of the three newly arrested defendants.

He said police believe the shooting was the result of a robbery for Oxycontin, a powerful prescription painkiller.

In addition to the murder charge, Burton, Gillespie and Gonzales are charged with attempted drug misconduct and robbery. Gonzales and Burton are also charged with evidence tampering.

Bold thief sought

WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers are looking for a man who fled a home on Iliamna Drive on Wednesday towing the homeowner’s trailer filled with her possessions.

According to a trooper press statement, officers called to the home at 2:14 p.m. spoke to the woman who said she’d arrived home just as the intruder was leaving.

The woman told troopers the man had hooked her trailer to his vehicle and loaded it up with things taken from inside the home.

When she confronted the man, the woman told troopers, he took off, towing the trailer with him.

Troopers later found the trailer overturned in the middle of Vine Road about a half-mile south of the Parks Highway.

The intruder is described as a white man, 20 or 30 years old. His pickup is described as older, dirty and light blue. Anyone with information is asked to call troopers at 745-2131 or Mat-Su Crime Stoppers at 745-3333.

Reward offered for robber’s ID

WASILLA — Mat-Su Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever robbed a local coffee stand, causing the brief lock down of local schools.

According to a Crime Stoppers press release, on Feb. 25 at 10:42 a.m., troopers were called to the coffee stand at the cor