Associated Press

KETCHIKAN — A Ketchikan woman is leading an effort to show local and state law enforcement agencies that they have the community’s support by taking a plunge in the Pacific Ocean.

The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the “Plunge for Peace” event, organized by Debbie Karlson, will take place Saturday at Ketchikan’s Knudson Cove. She says docks will be cleared of boats to make way for jumpers.

Karlson says idea for the plunge came out of wanting to show support for law enforcement following the killings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ketchikan police Chief Alan Bengaard says Ketchikan is fortunate because support for officers “has always been huge.”

The Plunge for Peace event will recognize Ketchikan police, Alaska State Troopers and the U.S. Coast Guard.

ANCHORAGE — Two men suspected of robbing an Anchorage bank were arrested early Friday at the city’s main airport.

The FBI says airport police recognized 23-year-old Kaleem Fredericks and 23-year-old Calel Crofford from pictures release by the FBI.

Airport police held the men shortly after midnight and they were arrested by FBI agents.

Two men on Thursday morning — one carrying a shotgun and one with a handgun — robbed a Wells Fargo branch on east Fifth Avenue.

They carried off cash in a duffel bag.

Fredericks and Crofford are in custody awaiting their first court appearance.

FAIRBANKS — A top administrator for the city of Fairbanks has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and leaving the scene of an accident.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports chief of staff Jeff Jacobson was arrested Thursday after knocking down a light pole and signs and continuing on at high speed.

Jacobson is the former mayor of North Pole and a former chief of staff for a Fairbanks North Star Borough mayor.

Jacobson told police he took a prescription drug and was in bed but received a call from his son, who needed his wallet before boarding a flight.

Police say Jacobson’s breath alcohol content measured .024, below the legal driving limit of .08.

Online court documents do not list an attorney for Jacobson.

ANCHORAGE — A man and a woman mauled by a bear in Alaska were airlifted by a Coast Guard helicopter to receive medical treatment.

The two are wilderness guides who were leading a group of cruise ship passengers on a hike about 30 miles north of Sitka, the Coast Guard said.

The cruise vessel Wilderness Explorer on Thursday afternoon notified the Coast Guard that two of its passengers had been mauled.

The Coast Guard launched a helicopter from Sitka.

The crew hoisted the man and woman into the chopper and transported them to emergency medical personnel in Sitka with what the Coast Guard said were “multiple injuries and severe lacerations.”

Winds of 23 mph were reported at the time.

Their conditions were not immediately known.

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are seeking information on two shootings.

Elijah Zeller, 18, on July 30 was dropped off at a hospital, where he died of gunshot wounds.

Detectives are trying to determine how Zeller was shot and a possible connection to a party that morning attended by more than 100 people on Cape Seville Drive, where shots were fired.

Police are looking for witnesses who attended the party.

Police also are looking for Kuach Kuach, 19, who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Chaduer Chuol, 19.

Kuach was a passenger in a car that crashed, killing Chuol, the driver, Aug. 5 on east Fifth Avenue.

Kuach had sustained a gunshot wound to his arm. Shots had been fired inside the car and at the car.

KOTZEBUE — The remains of a Selawik man missing since 2013 have been positively identified.

The remains Clifford Greist, 32, were identified by specialists in Texas, Alaska State Troopers said.

Greist and Shellain Adams, 22, of Noorvik in May 2013 left Kotzebue on a snowmobile for Noorvik and were not seen again.

More than 150 volunteers and aircraft from multiple agencies searched unsuccessfully.

The body of Adams was found on July 4, 2013, in surf 10 miles south of Point Hope.

On Sept. 10, 2015, a survey crew working along a beach 60 miles south of Kotzebue found human remains in water near surf.

The Alaska State Medical Examiner sent the remains to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. A DNA analysis confirmed the identification of Greist.