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The weather.

Mostly clear. Highs

in the mid 20s. Light

winds. Tonight: -1 to

4 above. Light winds.

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The Interior’s largest caribou herd is congregating along Steese Highway. » A4Inside Today

NEW LIFEDonald Trump seizes

on Obamacare report.

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Aurora forecast.

Auroral activity will be

high(+). Weather per-

mitting, highly active

auroral displays will be

visible overhead from

Utqiagvik — formerly

known as Barrow — to

as far south as Kodiak

and King Salmon.

This information is provid-

ed by aurora forecasters at

the Geophysical Institute

at the University of Alaska

Fairbanks. For more infor-

mation about the aurora,

visit http://www.gi.alaska.

edu/AuroraForecast

CONGRATS, SMARTIES18 Nanooks named to

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Cross Country Team.

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newsminer.comWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016

District 3 incumbent: Cuts can cure what ails budgetEDITOR’S NOTE: The Daily News-Miner’s

coverage of Interior Alaska legislative races

continues today. The News-Miner’s election

information guide, including Q&As with

candidates on the issues, publishes Oct. 30.

Complete campaign coverage is online at

www.newsminer.com/news/politics.

By Matt BuxtonMBUXTON@NEWSMINER.COM

Rep. Tammie Wilson is seeking her fourth elected term in the Legislature to continue to fight for her constitu-ents.

W i l s o n i s t h e Republican incum-bent in House Dis-trict 3, which covers North Pole and the surrounding area and the first miles of Che-na Hot Springs Road. This year she’s facing two opponents, independent can-didate Jeanne Olson and Democrat Christina Sinclair.

Both Wilson’s opponents have tak-en aim at her record, particularly her laser focus on constituent services and cuts-first approach to the bud-get. Wilson defends her work.

“It’s all about my constituents. It’s helping them out, learning more about the process and how we get back to a government that’s not so intrusive,” she said. “We’re a very responsible group of people, and to have government regulating abso-lutely every part of your life just doesn’t work.”

Wilson said she believes the state government has taken on too many services from the federal government or the private sector. She said cuts and consolidation can be the cure both to the state’s budget deficit and to the long-running calls to diversify the state’s economy.

Wilson

By Dorothy ChomiczDCHOMICZ@NEWSMINER.COM

A Fort Wainwright soldier who

accepted bribes in a gasoline theft scheme while stationed in Afghani-stan was sentenced to four months in prison Friday.

Sheldon Morgan was a special-ist in the U.S. Army with the Fort Campbell-based 426th Brigade Support Battalion and deployed to Forward Operating Base Fenty, near Jalalabad, in late 2010 and early 2011. Morgan accepted two $5,000 bribes from an Afghan interpreter and allowed an Afghan trucking company to steal two 5,000-gallon truckloads of fuel from the base, according to court documents.

The value of the stolen fuel was $37,300.

BERRY COLD OUTSIDE

Hoarfrost accumulates on a chokecherry tree branch Tuesday morning in Pioneer Park. ERIC ENGMAN/NEWS-MINER

WILSON » A3

BRIBES » A3

Soldier who took bribes gets prison

First day in office? Move itBy Kevin BairdKBAIRD

@NEWMSINER.COM

Mayor Jim Mather-ly is wasting no time in delivering on his promise to make him-self more available to city employees and to the public.

On his first day in office, Matherly had a work crew preparing to move the Mayor’s Office from its slight-ly secluded spot to an adjacent room that is visible from the hall-way.

And, just as he promised during his

campaign, the door to the office is open.

“That way, people can see me,” Matherly said. “It’s important the employees see me. And there will be no more walking

on eggshells at City Hall. People can walk in and talk about any-thing.”

Matherly said he’s been very busy and will be diving right into finishing a first draft of the city ’s 2017 budget, which is due to the City

Council on Friday. He also plans to

meet later this week with Jake Metcalf, president of the Pub-lic Safety Employees Union, to discuss the contract dispute between the city and

MATHERLY » A9

Mayor puts police chief on leave » A9

Injured officer slated for surgery ThursdayBy Dorothy ChomiczDCHOMICZ

@NEWSMINER.COM

The Fairbanks police ser-

geant critically injured after a gunman opened fire on

him last week has left the hospital and will undergo eye surgery Thursday.

Sgt. Allen Brandt was shot multiple times shortly after midnight Oct. 16 while answering a call of shots

fired in downtown Fair-banks. The assailant fled in Brandt’s patrol car after taking his gun and stomping on his head.

BRANDT » A3

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its police officers. M a t h e r l y s a i d h e

heard rumors that he was going to “blow up” the Fairbanks Diversity Council.

He said he not only

would not dismantle the council but he also would attend its next meeting. Matherly said he hoped to de termine which direction its members want to take the Diver-sity Council, and how to make it more effective.

Matherly has retired from DJ-ing, but he

isn’t selling his Allstate Insurance agency.

He said he will hire more employees to fill in while he is mayor.

“I love it,” Matherly said about his first day as mayor of Fairbanks. Contact staff writer Kevin

Baird at 459-7575. Follow

him on Twitter: @FDNMcity.

MATHERLYContinued from A1

By Kevin BairdKBAIRD@NEWSMINER.COM

One of Mayor Jim Matherly’s first acts as mayor was to place Fair-banks Police Chief Randall Chief Aragon on adminis-trative leave — again.

“I thought it was a lit-tle premature to bring him back, considering the investigation isn’t com-plete,” Matherly said.

Former Mayor John Eberhart placed Aragon on leave Sept. 22 after the filing of an ethics com-plaint that accused Ara-gon of using his position to promote his private secu-rity survey business.

On Sept. 19, Dan Hoff-man, former chief of police, sent an open letter to the City Council that detailed the allegations. Hoffman said he found out about the allegations Sept. 17.

Hu m a n R e s o u r c e s Director Angela Foster- Snow opened a personnel investigation against Ara-gon. At the behest of the City Council, an indepen-dent investigation also was launched.

Eberhart brought Ara-gon back to work Oct. 19, citing a number of rea-sons, including the Alaska Native Federation Con-vention, which brought an estimated 4,500 people into Fairbanks.

According to a news release, Aragon wil l remain on leave until the

i n v e s t i -g at i o n i s complete, a r e p o r t h a s b e e n r e c e i v e d a n d t h e mayor and City Coun-cil have made a final deter-mination about Aragon’s job status.

According to city code, the mayor can make a recommendation about a police chief ’s job status, but only the City Council has the power to make the determination.

At the City Council meeting Monday night, Sean Reilly — a candidate for the City Council seat won by Jerry Norum — accused Matherly of col-luding with acting-chief of police Brad Johnson and businesswoman Lori Kezer to bring Aragon down.

Reilly called for an inves-tigation of Matherly, and also asked Matherly to recuse himself from any decisions about Aragon. Reilly’s conclusions largely were drawn from photos of Matherly, Johnson and Kezer that had been post-ed on Facebook.

Matherly fired back at Reilly, telling him one of the photos in question was from 2010, when he was elected to City Council the first time. He also said he’s known Johnson and Kezer a very long time.

Matherly said Kezer did

attend one of his political fundraisers this year.

“I want everyone to know she brought me (a campaign donation) and did some magic tricks,” Matherly said.

Matherly told Reilly he doesn’t understand how the Facebook photos showed he was uneth-ical. He said he found out about the allegations against Aragon the same day as Hoffman did, which was a couple months after the fundraiser.

Counci lman David Pruhs reminded Reilly that Aragon was under investigation by a private investigator. He also told Reilly he could have voiced his concerns in a better way, considering Mather-ly’s family was in atten-dance to see him sworn-in as mayor.

Aragon

Mayor puts Aragon on leaveINTERIOR/ALASKA

The Public Safety Report

is compiled from criminal

complaints iled in state and federal courts, as well as some

police blotter information,

trooper dispatches, ire department reports and

interviews with public safety

oficials. Individuals named as arrested and/or charged

with crimes in this report

are presumed innocent until

proved guilty in a court of law.

Assault• Janice Sophie Smith,

44, of Fairbanks, was charged with fourth- degree assault Oct. 19, after Alaska State Troop-ers responded to an assault at a hotel in the Fairbanks area. Accord-ing to charging docu-ments, a man said he and Smith argued about money he gave her, and she scratched his face and screamed for help after he got in her purse. The man was bleeding from several scratches on the left side of his face.

• Alan A. Cleveland, 28, of Fairbanks, was charged with fourth- degree assault and resist-ing arrest for allegedly assaulting his mother. The woman called Alas-ka State Troopers at 7:42 a.m. and asked them to remove Cleveland from her house because he was drunk and being rude. Troopers did not remove

him but provided the woman with civil options to remove him, according to charging documents.

The woman called back at 2:12 p.m. and said Cleveland came at her in the kitchen, so she ran to the neighbor’s house to call police. She said she saw Cleveland attack his father in August and was afraid he would hurt her.

After his arrest, Cleve-land passively resist-ed police and had to be moved down the steps. He also refused to sit in the patrol vehicle and had to be forcibly placed in it, according to the charges.

Cleveland’s breath- alcohol registered 0.328. He continued to be unco-operative at Fairbanks Correctional Center, according to the charges.

DUISteven Valdia Mitch-

ell, 61, of Fairbanks, was charged with driv-ing under the influence T hursday a f ternoon after Fairbanks police responded to a report of a possibly intoxicated driv-er. The caller said he saw a man stagger to a Toyota pickup parked at MLH Manor and drive off. A second caller said the man smelled like alcohol and possibly had gone to buy liquor, according to

charging documents.Police stopped the Toy-

ota on Seventh Avenue near Noble Street. Mitch-ell smelled like alcohol and had a 12-pack of beer on the floorboard. When asked whether he’d been drinking, Mitchell said he drank a lot of vodka and beer the night before and had four or five beers that day, according to the charges.

Mitchell failed one of the field sobriety tests and declined to perform balance tests because of leg problems. His breath-alcohol content registered 0.161.

Failure to register

Erik McKaye New-b r o o k , 47, o f Fa i r -b a n k s , w a s c h a r ge d w i t h s e c o n d - degree failure to register as a sex offender after Alaska State Troopers stopped him for speed-ing near 204 Mile Parks Highway on Oct. 19. A records check showed Newbrook was convict-ed of third-degree sexu-al abuse in Oregon and is required to register as a sex offender on a quar-terly basis for life. New-brook failed to register in September, according to charging documents. — Dorothy Chomicz

PUBLIC SAFETY REPORT

Jim Matherly,

the new mayor of

Fairbanks, is seen in City Hall

on Tuesday afternoon.

ERIC

ENGMAN/

NEWS-MINER

(Former Mayor

John) Eberhart

brought Aragon

back to work

Oct. 19, citing a

number of rea-

sons, including

the Alaska Native

Federation Con-

vention, which

brought an esti-

mated 4,500 peo-

ple into Fairbanks. 

A3Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

The interpreter wired the money in two installments to a bank account in the Philip-pines that Morgan had his wife set up for that purpose. Mor-gan’s wife, who was living in the Philippines at the time, did not know what the account was for and was not charged in the crime, according to Gary Col-bath, Morgan’s federal public defender.

Morgan has served multiple tours of duty, deployed to war zones on more than one occa-sion, reenlisted four times and is a decorated soldier who lost his left index finger in the line of duty, Colbath said.

The U.S. Attorney’s office asked that Morgan be sen-tenced to 24 months, the low end of the sentencing guide-lines range of 24-30 months.

U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline sentenced Morgan to four months in jail, citing his otherwise exem-plary and longtime service to his country and that others have been sentenced to less than 24 months for thefts of

government property worth much more.

Morgan’s super visor in Afghanistan accepted more than $60,000 in bribes for fuel thefts valued at $400,000 in an unrelated case that Morgan was not involved in or aware of, Colbath said. The supervisor was sentenced to 12 months and one day, which is the fed-eral equivalent of a 10-month sentence when good time is applied.

Beistline also noted Mor-gan stopped his illegal activi-ty on his own and cooperated completely when questioned months later by federal inves-tigators.

Morgan has remained free on bail since his arrest in the case and must voluntarily surrender himself to custody by Nov. 1. He will be on supervised release for two years after his time is served and must pay $37,300 in restitution.

Morgan had agreed to forfeit the $10,000 bribe.

Army discharge proceed-ings are pending and will be resolved now that Morgan’s has been sentenced, Colbath said. Contact staff writer Dorothy Chomicz

at 459-7582. Follow her on Twitter:

@FDNMcrime.

Anthony George Jenkins-Alexie was arrested and charged Oct. 18 with attempt-ed murder, assault, theft, evidence tam-pering and weapons misconduct after an intense, around-the-clock police investiga-tion.

B r a n d t w a l k e d into the Fairbanks City Council meeting Monday night and received a standing ovation.

“Can you believe I was shot five times in the leg and I walked in here?” Brandt said.

According to a post on Brandt’s Facebook page, doctors were waiting for blood clot-ting to liquify before removing shrapnel from his left eye.

“The prognosis is worse-case scenar-io for saving his eye,” the post said. “When held open, Allen has a tiny hint of light com-ing through but no vision.”

Brandt was shot twice in his right leg, once in his left, once in his right foot, once in the chest, and a sixth bullet grazed his right knee. The shot to the chest was stopped by his body armor.

According to the

Facebook post, doc-tors decided not to remove the bullets so as not to do further damage.

“One bullet may-be working its way to the surface on his right shinbone. Another has decided to rest under his left sitting bone. It is very uncomfortable to sit on,” the post said.

The post expressed thanks for the sup-port the family has received since the shooting.

“ We a r e o v e r -whelmingly blessed by our friends, family, churches, police fami-ly, community, across the state of Alaska,

and around the coun-try!”

An account has been set up on the crowd-funding web-site YouCaring to help Brandt and his fami-ly during his lengthy recovery. Those inter-ested in donating can click on http://bit.ly/2eu1t0j.

According to the Yo u C a r i n g p a ge , some of the dona-tions will be used to bring Brandt’s moth-er, who is a certified physical therapist, to Alaska to help with his recovery. Contact staff writer

Dorothy Chomicz at

459-7582. Follow her on

Twitter: @FDNMcrime.

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Hoot and hollar at band o’ scurvy pirates in HealyH

EALY — Ahoy, Mateys!Healy is about to be

invaded by pirates, thanks to the always popular and enduring Tri-Valley Com-munity Library Mystery The-atre and Silent Auction.

The show, a deadly din-ner play, is appropriately dubbed “Murd-arrrr Pirate” with a skull and crossbones on prominent display. It takes place Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov, 5. Doors open at 6 p.m. for appetiz-ers and silent auction both nights. The play begins at 7 p.m. Audience members are encouraged to dress like pirates themselves.

Tickets are $25 per person or two for $40. All proceeds support the Tri-Valley Com-munity Library in Healy.

Here’s what the audience can look forward to: a drunk-en, screw-up pirate, a French pirate looking for treasure; the captain of the crew, the cap-tain’s momma, the captain’s first mate and the captain’s dear friend.

One of them gets murdered. One of them is the murderer.

It is up to audience members to guess who-done-it. The

audience can vote their con-clusions during intermission. The winner, of course, wins a prize.

“This is a murder mystery,” director Megan Scoles said. “It is super hilarious, with a lot of surprises for our audience.”

The local community always loves watching their friends and neighbors show off their acting abilities. In this show, the “all-star cast” includes Kevin Mayo, Kassandra Miro-sh, Stacy Isaacson, David Talerico, Krista Zappone and Jeremy Wolf Sr.

Election Nov. 8In a sea of incumbents,

there’s one new face vying for a seat on the Denali Borough Assembly.

Meet Patrick Kelly. He is the youth program manager at Denali Education Center and has been living and working in the Denali Borough for about one year. He is seeking to

replace Assem-blywoman Kim-ber Burrows, who moved out of state recently.

Kelly initially came to the area as a seasonal field educator with the Denali Education Center, although he had been living in Alaska full-time since 2013.

“I came up here to earn my master’s in outdoor and envi-ronmental education from Alaska Pacific University,” he said.

“Since moving to Alaska, I have lived and worked in Palmer, Anchorage, Girdwood, Homer and have finally settled her in Denali.”

The youth program manager position is now year-round.

“I want to serve on the assembly as a way of engaging with and giving back to this wonderful Denali community,” Kelly said.

“When I first came to Denali, I immediately fell in love with this place and this community. I want to help preserve what makes both of these aspects so unique, and

be a part of developing the vision the community sees for its future.”

There are candidates for every seat this election, and there are no contested races. In addition to Kelly, assembly candidates include incum-bents Tallon Shreeve, David W. Evans and Donald V. DeB-lauw. Kelly’s seat is a two-year term. The others are three-year terms.

On the school board, can-didates for three-year terms include Vernon Carlson, Trista Davis and Eric Warner.

Vote, get toteAt the Denali Borough this

month, if you vote, you will get a tote.

The Denali Borough, in part-nership with the Denali Zero Landfill Project, is providing free totes to people who cast ballots in the Nov. 8 election.

Totes also will be provided to early voters in the borough office from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon-day through Thursday until Nov. 8.

The totes are 100 percent recycled with the Denali Borough logo and the Denali Zero Landfill Project logo on full display. The bag also pro-claims: I used to be a plastic bottle!

The Denali Borough office is getting out this message: “Let’s keep those plastic bags from blowing around the landfill.

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Kelly

“When you get to the place we are in our bud-get and we don’t have money flowing, there’s actually a great oppor-tunity that we have. We can look at how we can strengthen the private market instead of wor-rying about the govern-ment side,” she said. “If the private sector soared, then people will have jobs and the economy will flourish.”

She said some specific examples where the state could step back would be on energy projects —

pointing to state subsi-dies for a Golden Valley Electric Association wind farm — and the universi-ty’s vocational job train-ing programs.

“The state has been competing for years with just about everyone in the state,” she said. “Now, they’re going to have to sit back and allow the private companies to do what we’ve been doing. I don’t think that’s neces-sarily a bad thing.”

Wilson was appoint-ed to the Legislature by then-Gov. Sean Parnell in 2009 to fill a vacancy left by John Coghill, who moved from the House to the Senate. Wilson then

won election in 2010, 2012 and 2014. In 2014, she faced a primary chal-lenge by fellow Repub-lican incumbent Doug Isaacson thanks to redis-tricting.

Before that, she served on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and has launched two unsuccessful bids for borough mayor. Though she’s been in state pol-itics since 2009, she’s stayed involved in local pol i t ics through her involvement in multi-ple voter initiatives that limited the borough’s ability to regulate air pollution.

One of her opponents,

Olson, was involved in the first successful cam-paign against Wilson’s home heating initiative in 2014, which was defeated again in 2015.

Wilson caused splash-es in the Legislature this year through her position at the head of the House Finance subcommittee on the University of Alas-ka budget. Some of the subcommittee’s mem-bers often questioned the value of spending state funding on research and athletics and pushed for a deep cut to the univer-sity budget that was ulti-mately softened.

Wilson still maintains the university is bloated

and needs to reconsider how it delivers its ser-vices.

“Right now, the uni-versity is spread so thin, trying to be something to everyone, and we just can’t afford to that,” she said.

“You need to start using technology, you need to be competitive with oth-er universities. What we were trying to do within our subcommittee is real-ly help the university look at the opportunities they have and say, ‘What do we do the best?”

She said if elected, she’ll continue to advo-cate for her constituents. She said many of her

bills, like a 2014 bill that legalized big bull moose derbies as fundraisers, are the work of specific groups or people.

“Everything I do is constituent-driven,” she said. “We still are a cit-izen Legislature, and although a citizen can’t file a bill, they can file it through us. That ’s the opportunity I help my constituents have. ... You don’t have that opportunity in other states. There’s no better advocate than the public themselves.”Contact staff writer Matt

Buxton at 459-7544. Follow

him on Twitter:

@FDNMpolitics.

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Anchorage police investigate fatal shooting, ask for public’s helpASSOCIATED PRESS

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have released the name of a man found shot to death in the city’s Government Hill

neighborhood.Police say the man who died

is 29-year-old Ian Alex Bobich.No one has been arrested in

the shooting and no charges have been filed.

Police just before 11 p.m. Monday took calls of shots fired, and officers found Bobich mortally wounded. Police are asking anyone with information to contact them.