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The Public Safety Report is compiled from criminal complaints filed in state and federal courts, as well as some police blotter information, trooper dispatches, fire department reports and interviews with public safety officials. Individuals named as arrested and/or charged with crimes in this report are presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.

Assault

• Donald Dean Pannick, 52, of Fairbanks, was charged with fourth-degree assault after his girlfriend said he shoved her Tuesday.

• Michael Vanhatten, Jr., 53, of North Pole, was charged with fourth-degree assault after his girlfriend said he struck her in the face Sunday afternoon.

DUI

• Levi Sterling DeWilde, 25, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after Alaska State Troopers received a report of a man weaving Tuesday on Phillips Field Road near Peger Road. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.184, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 to operate a motor vehicle.

• Diana Eugenia Garcia-Jaime, 20, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers came upon her vehicle stuck in a ditch Sunday on Dale Road near Mail Trail. A chemical test found her breath-alcohol content to be 0.190.

• James Thomas Hood, 41, of Alaska, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers spotted him trying to start his vehicle Friday on the side of Goldstream Road near the Steese Expressway. Hood had bloodshot watery eyes and smelled of alcohol, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

He was also charged with refusal to submit to a chemical test.

• Mario A. Ramirez-Guzman, 33, of Fairbanks, was charged with felony driving under the influence after troopers observed him making an improper lane change late Sunday night on Peger Road near 18th Avenue. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.211.

He was also charged with driving with a cancelled license.

Ramirez-Guzman has two previous DUI convictions within the past 10 years, the first in June 1999 and the second in January 2008 in Nevada, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

• Nicole M. Schultz, 24, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers received a report July 11 of three women fighting in a vehicle on the Old Steese Highway near Farmers Loop Road. A chemical test found her breath-alcohol content to be 0.333.

She was also charged with driving with a suspended license.

• James B. Spears, 24, of Fairbanks, was charged with driving under the influence after troopers received a report of a vehicle collision Monday in the 2000 block of Lakeview Terrace. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.246.

Spears had his 5-year-old son in the vehicle at the time. He was also charged with first-degree child endangerment.

• John Henry Sykes, 52, of North Pole, was charged with driving under the influence after North Pole police stopped him July 7 in the North Pole Safeway parking lot on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. A chemical test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.144.

Minor operating

Jake Austin Dunning, 19, of Orange Park, Fla., was charged with being a minor operating a vehicle after University of Alaska Faribanks police stopped him for speeding July 1 on College Road near Morgan Way. A preliminary breath test found his breath-alcohol content to be 0.104.

Theft

A Fairbanks man is accused of stealing a laptop from the Alaska Airlines Cargo Warehouse.

Kyle George, 19, has been charged with one count of second-degree theft, a felony.

Fairbanks International Airport Police were called to the warehouse late Saturday night when a manager reported the laptop, which was being shipped here from Anchorage, stolen. George was mentioned as a suspect, and when he was contacted at his home, a laptop fitting the description of the stolen one was spotted in the back seat of his car.

George at first said it belonged to a friend of his, but later admitted to taking it, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

The laptop was valued at $1,150.