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Troopers Arrest Mountain Village Resident After Alleged Assault Against a VPO

A Trooper vehicle parked in Nome. Photo Credit: Davis Hovey, KNOM (2017)

According to an Alaska State Troopers dispatch, Georgianna Hanson of Mountain Village drove an ATV into an oncoming ATV, which was being driven by a VPO. Hanson was arrested and charged with assault in the third degree for the ATV incident, and then assault in the fourth degree for allegedly assaulting a second VPO during her arrest.