Tag: Alaska
Kendon Rowcroft-Ivy, Firearms Trafficking, Alaska 2025
⏱ 2 min read Kendon Rowcroft-Ivy, a 20-year-old Anchorage man, was involved in a string of illicit firearm transactions, selling unregistered guns, machinegun conversion devices, and even a 3D printed machinegun to individuals in Anchorage, Alaska, between January and February 2025. The sales, which totaled $12,500, were made without the necessary federal firearms license, and…
Seth Herrera, Child Exploitation, Alaska 2021
Child Predator Behind Bars: Seth Herrera Pleads Guilty to Heinous Crimes ANCHORAGE, Alaska – In a shocking turn of events, a former Army soldier has pleaded guilty to child exploitation crimes committed in Alaska and Texas. Seth Herrera, 36, a specialist at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, confessed to attempting to produce child sexual abuse material (CSAM)…
William Steadman, Production of Child Pornography, Alaska 2024
⏱ 2 min read A Juneau man, William Steadman, 35, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy and producing child pornography in Juneau, Alaska, between March and August 2024. Steadman manipulated and groomed the vulnerable minor, producing 43 images and 63 videos depicting the abuse, and posted some of…
Enrico Ronquillo, False Impersonation of a US Citizen, Alaska 2026
⏱ 2 min read Enrico Ronquillo, a 38-year-old Philippine national, stole the identities of US citizens to impersonate one on a cruise to Alaska. On May 11, 2025, he boarded a cruise ship in Seattle, posing as a US citizen. Ronquillo used a stolen name, date of birth, and address to get past security. His…
William Steadman, Child Sex Abuse and CSAM Production, Alaska 2026
BODY: A Juneau, Alaska, man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his heinous crimes against a young boy. William Steadman, 35, was found guilty of sexually abusing a 10-year-old minor and producing over 100 images and videos depicting the abuse. The twisted predator manipulated and groomed the vulnerable child from March to…
Anthaney O’Connor, Child Pornography Trafficking, Alaska 2026
Anthaney O’Connor, a 32-year-old Anchorage resident, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release for his role in trafficking child pornography. The disturbing case involves images of pre-pubescent children and AI-generated content depicting child sexual abuse. According to court documents, O’Connor pleaded guilty on July 31, 2025, to receipt…
Jacob Butler, DDoS, Alaska 2026
⏱ 3 min read Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old Canadian man, was arrested in Ottawa, Canada, for operating the notorious KimWolf Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Internet of Things (IoT) botnet. The botnet infected over a million devices worldwide, including devices in Alaska, and was used to launch massive DDoS attacks, including one that reached a…
Adepoju Babatunde Salako, Wire Fraud, Alaska 2022
⏱ 2 min read Adepoju Babatunde Salako, a 33-year-old Pennsylvania man, devised a scheme to defraud the Alaska Department of Revenue’s Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program in 2022. Between January and February of that year, Salako fraudulently obtained personal identifying information (PII) for legitimate Alaskan residents and submitted seven separate applications to the Alaska DOR…
Adepoju Babatunde Salako, Wire Fraud, Alaska 2022
A 33-year-old man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for his role in a 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) fraud scheme. Adepoju Babatunde Salako, a Pennsylvania man, pleaded guilty to and was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a half in prison for committing wire fraud through a 2022 PFD…
Michael Beans, Wildlife Crimes, Alaska 2022
⏱ 2 min read A brazen wildlife guiding scam in rural Alaska has landed a St. Mary’s man a 3-year prison sentence. Michael Beans, 36, preyed on out-of-state hunters, collecting over $59,000 in deposits for guided bull moose hunts he had no license to lead. Between October 2021 and December 2022, Beans contacted hunters on…
