{"id":102310,"date":"2023-08-29T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/kake-public-safety-officer-arrested-for-assault-possessing-a-weapon-while-intoxicated\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:37:37","slug":"kake-public-safety-officer-arrested-for-assault-possessing-a-weapon-while-intoxicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/kake-public-safety-officer-arrested-for-assault-possessing-a-weapon-while-intoxicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kake public safety officer arrested for assault, possessing a weapon while intoxicated"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a developing story.<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n

A village public safety officer in Kake was arrested Tuesday on three separate charges after he reportedly assaulted a woman and possessed a weapon while intoxicated, according to Alaska State Troopers. He was off-duty when the alleged crimes occurred.<\/p>\n

Austin Brady, 28, of Kake was arrested on second-degree assault (class B felony), fourth-degree criminal mischief (class A misdemeanor) and fourth-degree misconduct involving a weapon (class A misdemeanor), according to an AST daily dispatch. Information about his charges have not yet appeared on the state court system.<\/p>\n

Troopers received the report of the assault of a woman in Kake at about 8:12 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to the dispatch. However, poor weather prevented troopers from landing their flight to the village by a chartered plane.<\/p>\n

Later, with assistance from the Petersburg Police Department, troopers were able to respond via the police department’s patrol vessel at about 2:30 p.m. that afternoon, where they contacted Brady, according to the dispatch.<\/p>\n

“Further investigation revealed that Brady had assaulted the female and possessed a firearm while intoxicated,” the dispatch states.<\/p>\n

Brady is employed by the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska as a village public safety officer in the community. According to a press release by the Alaska Department of Public Safety, Brady graduated from law enforcement training in Sitka in November 2022.<\/p>\n

According to Tlingit and Haida Communications Coordinator Raeanne Holmes, the tribe is not commenting at this time.<\/p>\n

“This incident is under investigation still and it’s important we let the Alaska State Troopers complete this work,” she wrote in an email. “As such, Tlingit & Haida will not be providing any comment relating to the alleged incident or the VPSO, their employment status, or conduct.”<\/p>\n

Holmes said the Public Safety Division would be dispatching two VPSOs to Kake Wednesday to provide coverage.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or (651)-528-1807.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The assault of the woman occurred while he was off-duty, Alaska State Troopers say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":102311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[640],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-102310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-cops-and-courts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102310"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=102310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}