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Date: 
Friday, May 22, 2015
A man stole a Jet Ski from an industrial area off Dimond Boulevard and loaded it onto a trailer on the back of a pickup truck, and headed north on Old Seward Highway. A witness called police and they caught up with him at International Airport Road and C Street. The officers attempted to stop the man, but he instead initiated a chase. Police chased for a short time before hanging back due to public safety concerns. The man had begun running red lights, and soon after he crashed into a traffic sign at Fireweed Lane and Arctic Boulevard.
Date: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Just before 6 a.m., Aleksandr Glushko was drove a pickup off a road and into pipe that was stacked in a company yard. The pickup was straddling pipe and could not be driven off. Glushko then wlaked to George Horner Ice Park where he stole a forklift and proceded to drive it over three miles to remove the truck. A witness saw the forklift being driven not far from the crash site and called police. Glushko was arrested and charged with felony driving under the influence of alcohol.
Date: 
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Duell was flying a plane southwest from Wasilla to Beluga at the same time Bara was flying another plane northwest from Chugiak to a landing area near Johnson Creek, at about 1:05pm, when the two planes collided. According to witness accounts, neither plane made attempts to change direction or altitude as they neared each other at a 90 degree angle and eventually crashed into each other, and that Duell's plane made a more controlled crash than Bara's, which began to come apart after the collision and plummeted to the ground in an intense crash.