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A video recording that went viral earlier this week has prompted an internal investigation by the Alaska Department of Public Safety. The 11-minute video was posted on YouTube Monday afternoon in Kodiak and shows a woman thrown to the ground by an Alaska State Trooper before being arrested.
Alaska State Trooper Brian Mitchell is one of the two troopers involved in the arrest and the individual seen throwing 20-year-old Skyler Waite to the ground in the video. Mitchell filed an affidavit on the incident where he detailed his account of the arrest.
According to the document, Mitchell was dispatched to a home in Kodiak for a medical emergency. It was determined that no one was in need of medical care, but Mitchell reported marijuana was in plain view and began asking Waite about the substance.
The film, which has attracted tens of thousands of views, shows the discussion between Waite and Mitchell. In the affidavit, Mitchell wrote that Waite pressed her hand against his arm, as if to usher him away, which he interpreted as an attempt to “instigate confrontation.” Then, as Mitchell was preparing to leave, he wrote that Waite attempted to move behind him and came into what he called “virtual body-to-body contact”. Mitchell said he saw Waite reaching her arm toward him, which he considered a “prelude to a physical assault.” Out of concern for his safety, Mitchell wrote that he shoved her away. He told Waite she was under arrest and he and the other trooper, Boyd Branch, forced her to the ground in order to handcuff her.
In the video, Waite is heard asking why she is being arrested and saying she was simply reaching for the door when she was thrown down.
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The Kodiak landfill is quickly filling up, but the borough has had an expansion plan in the works for some time. But as Borough Manager Bud Cassidy explains, the landfill isn’t simply a hole in the ground. This means expanding the area, or even closing out the old space, is a huge undertaking.
“Everything about the landfill, it’s an engineered mountain," Cassidy said. "We’ve finished our existing footprint, or we will in the next year or so. So we’re building a new cell, and this new cell has to meet all the EPA, DEC regulations.”
Cassidy said new regulations require all of the liquids that come out of the garbage, as well as any rainfall, need to be captured and sent to a water treatment plant. Part of the expansion project is construction of a treatment plant at the low point in the landfill.
At about $25 million, Cassidy said the new landfill will be much more costly than the previous one. He attributes the price tag to complex engineering and needed equipment to meet Environmental Protection Agency and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s standards.
He said the hope is to have the new cell up and running in 2014.
“Give or take how much, you know the more we recycle. Maybe the longer period of time we might have to use the original footprint. But even after it’s completed we have to close it out," he said. "It’s pretty expensive to close a cell out. Then you have a 30 year required monitoring.”
The borough is set to receive $4.5 million from the state capital budget that was passed during the legislative session that ended in April. Cassidy said that money is solely designated for the landfill expansion, which will certainly help buffer the high cost of the project.
“The message is having a landfill on an island in the North Pacific is pretty expensive. There’s no doubt about that. And I can’t say enough about the more recycle the longer our landfills will last.”
The legislative grant the borough received for the project isn’t necessarily a done deal. The entire capital budget is still awaiting the governor’s signature.
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Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak has deployed an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and support personnel to Cordova. The temporary deployment is in preparation for the upcoming Copper River Red and King fisheries in Prince William Sound and Southcentral Alaska.
Those fisheries are set to open in a few weeks and the increased number of fishing vessels that will be operating in the region prompted the Coast Guard’s deployment of the helicopter. The hope is to ensure rapid response in case of a vessel emergency.
Coast Guard Captain Daniel Travers is the chief of incident management and said in a release that Cordova is one of the Coast Guard’s four seasonal forward operating stations in Alaska and is scheduled to remain open until September 30. The aircrews now stationed in Cordova will also receive support from the Air Station Kodiak based HC-130 Hercules airplane throughout the spring and summer.
A release from the Coast Guard said the aircrews in Cordova saved nine lives and assisted 12 others last summer.
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The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will meet tonight for a regular meeting and discuss a rezoning ordinance and approve a number of contracts. First up on the agenda is an ordinance that would rezone a plot of land in Chiniak from public use to residential. This will be the second reading of the ordinance and a public hearing will be held on the matter.
Also during the meeting, the assembly will look at contract for legal services associated with the sale of revenue bonds for the Long Term Care facility. Another contract up for discussion is for installation of electrical services for the Kodiak High School Renovation and Construction project. The Assembly will also be asked to approve a change order for construction services on the landfill lateral expansion project.
Tonight’s meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the borough assembly chambers. The meeting is open the public and comments are taken at the beginning and end of each meeting. It will also be broadcast live on KMXT.
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The deadline to have studded tires removed from vehicles has been extended. The original deadline was April 15, but an emergency order last month extended that deadline to May 1. Another emergency order came through the Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner’s Office this week to extend the deadline even further, this time to May 15.
As winter still lingers in weather forecasts across the state, the department sought to ensure drivers were safe on roads still covered with snow and ice. The deadline isn’t expected to be extended beyond May 15, and citations will be issued to those still driving with studded tires.
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