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Shooter in Sitka drug hit to serve 20 years without parole
Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Jul 9, 2021
Christina “Lete” Quintana (at left) in Sitka Superior Court in March 2018, with co-defendants Andrea”Josey” Avalos, Alesa Williams, and Cocoa Fudge (Daily Sitka Sentinel photo/James Poulson)
A New Mexico woman will spend 20 years in prison without parole, for pulling the trigger in a drug hit three years ago in Sitka.
In passing sentence, Superior Court Judge William Carey said the offense committed by Christina Quintana was the worst he had seen in a drug-related case, in his 40-year legal career.
In a negotiated agreement, the state dropped all charges against 35-year old Christina Quintana except one: Assault inflicting serious injury with a weapon.
2020: The year we came together, living distantly
Posted by Katherine Rose and Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 31, 2020
Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price stands alongside photos of Jessica Baggen taken at her 17th birthday party in 1996. Baggen was murdered later that same evening as she walked home on the Sawmill Creek Road bicycle path. It wasn’t until August, 2020, that “genetic geneaology” was used to identify a suspect living in Arkansas. (DPS image)
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was like the pavement that all other stories rolled on- everything from school closures, the poor fishing season, the non-existent cruise season, to elections. Most news was propelled by the pandemic in some way.