On September 1, 2001, the Unalaska Police Department responded to a 10 p.m. report of a gunshot victim on board the 43-foot F/V Ambition, owned by Nikolaevsk's Timofiy Anfilofev.
Police found Elisei Zuboff, 20, dead. Next to his body was a Russian-type military rifle.
Zuboff's brother, Grigori, now 17, and crewman Alexander Anfilofev told police they were sleeping in their bunks and were awakened by a gunshot. Further investigation revealed holes in their story, according to Unalaska Police Lt. John Lucking.
Police say Grigori Zuboff admitted to shooting his brother, though initially he claimed it was an accident. Later, Anfilofev told police that the Zuboff brothers had fought at a dock earlier in the evening, resulting in Alex giving Grigori a black eye.
According to Anfilofev, Grigori said he was going to kill his brother.
Since then, Anfilofev allegedly fell off a dock and hit his head, and said he does not remember details of the case.
The case is expected to go to the jury at the end of this week.
The Ohlson Mountain man known as "Walking" John Powell is being sued. Powell is serving a 20-year prison term with five years suspended as the result of a shooting spree directed at three area residents he claimed were snowmachining on his land near Lookout Mountain in April of last year.
At his trial last year, Powell, a bearded hermit who also went by the nickname "Dark Star" and apparently shunned motorized vehicles, pleaded no contest to three counts of third-degree assault and one count of misconduct involving a weapon, reduced from three counts of attempted murder, among other charges.
The victims in the shooting, Susan Malone and Gabriel Ritchie, have filed suit against Powell, citing damage to property, medical expenses and the costs of psychological counseling necessary following the assault.
No monetary figure was listed in the court documents, but the suit seeks an appropriate amount "for the economic and noneconomic general and special damages , plus an appropriate amount of punitive damages, together with the costs, interest and attorney's fees ."
A 46-year-old Homer woman has been charged with fourth degree assault for assaulting her daughter.
According to court documents, which are based upon the daughter's statement, the girl was fighting with her brother and knocked some toys to the floor.
Her mother, Verna Sampson, hit her in the back of the head, she said, and told her to pick them up. When she tried, and dropped some of them, Sampson hit her a dozen times in the back of her head, using her knuckles, she said.
Sampson then placed both hands around her daughter's neck and began to strangle her for about 30 seconds.
The girl told police she was afraid of repercussions for reporting the assault.
A 22-year-old Homer man was charged this week with fifth degree misconduct involving a controlled substance after an officer inadvertently contacted him at his residence on an unrelated matter.
The officer smelled "a moderate odor of fresh, growing marijuana," according to court documents. The man, Robert Hodges, surrendered a small amount of marijuana bud from the coffee table.
In plain view was an assortment of pipes, various sets of scissors and a Tupperware container full of marijuana leaf clippings. The defendant showed officers several marijuana plants under a grow light in a spare bedroom, and about 10 harvested plants hanging upside down to dry.
Hodges told the officers that he was growing and selling the marijuana to pay his rent, the documents said.
On April 7 at about 8:30 p.m., a man called the Homer Police Department to complain about a vehicle driving around with an anti-war statement written in the dirt covering it. The statement consisted of a four-letter epithet followed by the word "war."
Chris Bernard can be reached at cbernard@homer news.com.
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