Juneau Police Department responded to a burglary call at approximately 11:22 p.m. June 14 from Alaskan Dames Consignment Shop<\/a>, located at 1900 Crest St.<\/p>\nAccess to the business had been gained by forcing open a door, and cash and consignment items had been stolen from the store. The burglary was captured on a video surveillance system and the responding officer reportedly recognized the suspect as Fortin.<\/p>\n
Less than an hour later, an officer located Fortin sitting in the back of a vehicle near the 9200 block of Glacier Highway. The property stolen from Alaskan Dames reportedly was recovered from Fortin and returned to the business.<\/p>\n
During Fortin’s initial arraignment last week, Assistant Attorney General Kaci Schroeder noted that he has 25 prior convictions, including a felony burglary in 2007. Court records show misdemeanor cases dating back to 2002 on charges that include disorderly conduct, trespassing, assault and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
Inmate sentenced to two years for smuggling drugs into prison<\/p>\n
On Thursday, a Lemon Creek Correctional Center inmate who pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the prison was sentenced to two years.<\/p>\n
Richard G. Baker, 26, was indicted last year for promoting contraband, a class C felony, on March 16, 2016.<\/p>\n
Judge Pallenberg noted that Baker’s sentence focuses on deterrence, telling him, “Jail hasn’t worked very well (as a deterrent) for you,” and noting a multitude of write-ups during Baker’s incarceration.<\/p>\n
Pallenberg added that Baker’s recorded phone calls did not show much indication of a desire to change his behavior and that Baker is likely to spend most of his life in prison.<\/p>\n
“I hope things go better in the future,” he told Baker. “I wish you luck.”<\/p>\n
\n• Contact reporter Liz Kellar at 523-2246 or liz.kellar@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n
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A suspect nabbed less than an hour after he allegedly broke into a consignment store and stole cash and consigned items was indicted Wednesday on one count of second-degree burglary. Jared Paul Fortin, 32, pleaded not guilty to the charge, for which he could face a maximum sentence of five years in prison, in Juneau […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}