ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A convicted Anchorage felon spotted Sunday carrying a weapon has been arrested.
Anchorage police say 25-year-old William Jarrett IV was arrested just after 3 p.m. after he was tracked and bitten by a police dog.
Police say Jarrett early Sunday got into a fight with his roommate and walked out with the roommate’s handgun.
Officers just before 5 a.m. spotted Jarrett but he fired the gun into the ground and ran into woods.
Late Sunday morning, a man in the Bear Valley neighborhood reported seeing Jarrett. He again ran into woods, where officers spoke to him by cellphone.
Police began tracking Jarrett just before 2:30 p.m. and found him nearly an hour later.
Police had obtained an arrest warrant on felony assault, weapons misconduct and theft counts.
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