Tripp J Crouse, KTOO

One man is being held without bail after officers responded to a reported break-in attempt at a Juneau residence early Saturday morning.

Demetrius Campos, 21, was arrested on one class B felony charge of first-degree burglary, and two misdemeanor charges: one count fourth-degree assault and one count of fifth-degree criminal mischief.

Juneau Police Department received a report at about 2:48 a.m. that  one or two people were attempting to break into a residence in the 2500 block of Teslin St., according to a news release.

The release stated that residents reported Campos tried to climb through a bedroom window and that he threatened the residents. A resident, armed with a rifle, reportedly struck Campos in the head with the rifle’s buttstock. Campos allegedly jumped back out of the window and broke the screen from a second window in an attempt to re-enter the residence.

On arrival about two minutes later, officers located a male suspect, later identified as Campos, walking away from the residence through a side yard toward a wooded area, the release said.

Officers told him to stop, but he ran into the woods and hid. Officers searched the wooded area and apprehended Campos several minutes later.

Police took Campos to Lemon Creek Correctional Center, where he was held without bail per bail schedule.

Alcohol is believed to be a factor in this case.

Police have no other suspects.

A homeless, 22-year-old man has been reported missing in Juneau, and police are seeking help finding him.

Christopher Edward Orcutt was last seen leaving a downtown party Aug. 25, according to a news release from the Juneau Police Department.

Orcutt was intoxicated when he left the party, the release said. He left behind several layers of clothing and his cellphone. Orcutt did not return for his items, and one of the party’s hosts contacted police on Aug. 30.

Orcutt told people he was camping on Thane Road, but isn’t registered at the Thane campground. Campers there didn’t know him, police said.

To eat, he frequented the Glory Hole and Foodland IGA, but hasn’t been seen there.

Police said Orcutt does not appear to have left Juneau by ferry or plane.

Contact the Juneau Police Department at 586-0600 with information about Orcutt.

The City and Borough of Juneau Utilities Division is repairing a water main break near mile marker 19 on Glacier Highway.

Customers north of Randall Road may be without water during the work.

The division’s water crew began work at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Contact CBJ Utilities Division at 586-0393 for more information.

Juneau Police Department received a report at 4:24 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, about a 52-year-old man with a knife in the middle of the intersection at Main Street and Juneau Drive, according to a Juneau Police Department news release.

Officers responded to the report and contacted the Juneau man, who appeared to be under the influence of unknown substance.

He was having a mental health emergency, the report said.

The man said  he was using the knife to defend himself from imaginary animals that were attacking him, the release said.

Officers had drawn their handguns because of the potential threat of the man with a knife.

Officers ordered the man to drop the knife, which he did.

He was then handcuffed and taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital for medical evaluation.

He was later admitted to the hospital for further treatment of mental health issues and substance abuse.

Alaska’s Earthquake Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks had recorded more than 25,000 earthquakes this year, according to researchers on Monday.

They’re not all big ones, but emergency planners want Alaskans to be prepared and have been taking an earthquake simulator on tour to that end.

The Alaska Division of Homeland Security and the Juneau Local Emergency Planning Committee hosted the event.

Homeland Security’s spokesman Jeremy Zidek, distributed information and talked to curious onlookers about earthquake and emergency preparedness.

“It’s exciting to bring the earthquake simulator down here,” Zidek said. “Folks in Southeast are vulnerable to earthquakes and it’s really a unique experience for people to feel a strong earthquake and then get some earthquake education and determine what they should do in a real earthquake.”

Zidek hopes the simulator is able to raises awareness and encourage people to prepare for a potential quake.

“When the shaking starts — real shaking starts, they’ll be able think back to the earthquake event and do the recommended earthquake safety action, which is drop, cover and hold on,” he said.

Children and adults took turns in the four-seat simulator throughout Wednesay. The simulator, which is housed on a trailer attached to a truck, lunges back-and-forth with the ferocity of a mechanical bull.

A securely-mounted television screen shows earthquake footage.

There are no seatbelts or safety harnesses in the truck. Participants just had a handle, a seat and for some, a white-knuckle death grip while the surroundings shook out of control in a simulated 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

It’s fun, if that’s the word for 30 seconds of fear.

Steve Masterman, the state geologist and director of Alaska’s Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, said Alaska experiences a significant amount of quakes.

“The exact percentage I’m not sure, but there’s significant number of earthquakes measured or recorded in Alaska every year. I think the number is up in the 30- to 40,000 range.”

A couple of major factors contribute to the number of quakes in Alaska, size is one. But the state’s location is also significant.

“The southern boundary of the state where the Pacific Ocean is a plate boundary,” Masterman said. “So the two plates – the North American and the Pacific plate are moving relative to each other and moving past each other pretty much along the entire southern shore of the state. So that’s a very long plate boundary.”

Masterman says the 49th state also has a series of faults, which are cracks in the Earth’s crust.

Those plates and faults create lots of motions and generate lots of quakes.

The earthquake simulator will be in downtown Juneau outside the Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum and in the KTOO parking lot Wednesday and Thursday.

The simulator and a fire safety house is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The event also features booths, presentations and free hotdogs and drinks prepared by the disaster mobile kitchen.

Police are looking for a 25-year-old Juneau man considered a person of interest in several reckless driving incidents including a hit-and-run since Sunday, according to a news release from the Juneau Police Department.

Micah William Nelson is wanted on two outstanding felony warrants related to probation violations, the release said.

At about 3:19 p.m. Sunday, a Juneau police officer observed a red Toyota Corolla with two occupants on Mendenhall Loop Road near Stephen Richards Memorial Drive.

The officer recognized the driver as someone with outstanding arrest warrants. The officer followed the vehicle and attempted a traffic stop near Lakeside Condominiums.

The vehicle sped up and left the area, driving on side streets and Tongass Boulevard where the vehicle briefly stopped.

The passenger, a 31-year-old woman who was on probation, got out and the vehicle sped away. She was sent to probation officials.

In another incident at about 11:43 a.m. Monday, a Juneau police officer saw a silver Chrysler with three people in it near the Switzer Village Mobile Home Park. As the officer pulled up, the vehicle fled.

The driver didn’t comply when the officer tried to make a traffic stop. The officer didn’t pursue the driver for safety reasons because of fast, reckless driving.

Later, a Forest Service officer spotted the suspect vehicle on Mendenhall Loop Road near the Mendenhall River Bridge. That officer also tried to stop the car, followed it onto Glacier Highway where it headed inbound, the release said.

An Alaska State Trooper near the bus barn on Back Loop also spotted the vehicle and saw it near the Brotherhood Bridge turning toward the airport.

At about 11:56 a.m., a 23-year-old woman called and said a silver vehicle struck a van she was driving.

She was at a stop sign on Del Rae Road and had just started to make a left turn onto Glacier Highway when the silver vehicle tried to pass her on the driver’s side, the release said. The front of the van struck the passenger side of the silver vehicle.

The silver car fishtailed, then continued at a high speed on Glacier Highway toward the airport.

The woman was driving with four juvenile passengers. No one was injured.

At about 12:28 p.m., the suspect vehicle was located in the Switzer Creek area and impounded.

Nelson’s two arrest warrants stem from a September 2014 felony drug conviction, according to online court records.

JPD is seeking the public’s help locating him.