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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.

DUI

Jason Todd Ellsworth, 32, of Fort Wainwright, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and making a false report following a single-vehicle crash early Wednesday on the Parks Highway near Sheep Creek Road. According to court records, Ellsworth initially told Alaska State Troopers that someone else was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash. Ellsworth later admitted to being the driver of the vehicle and crashing the vehicle into the ditch. His breath-alcohol content was measured at 0.114 percent by a chemical test, which is more than the legal limit of 0.08.

Assault

• Four Minto men face misdemeanor assault charges for allegedly beating up another young man in the village west of Fairbanks.

Preston L. Alexander, 23; Shane T. Charlie, 20; Moses Gibson, 18; and Dylan P. Sherry, 18, are accused of kicking and punching a boy who was walking through the village with a girl. The boy attempted to run away but four assailants chased him down and beat him. The victim suffered numerous cuts and abrasions to his face.

Troopers were able to match easily identifiable shoe prints on the back of the victim’s coat to at least one of the men who were arrested.

• Martin Daryl Baker, 41, of Fairbanks, was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly putting a staple gun against his girlfriend’s head and face and threatening to shoot staples into her on Tuesday night, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. The woman called 911 and troopers responded.

• A woman angry about a chipped windshield was charged with assault for harassing the driver of the car in front of her. Heidi Ann Agustin, 20, of Eielson Air Force Base was arrested by North Pole police Tuesday around 7 p.m. after she became upset with the driver in front of her, according to court documents. A rock from the other driver’s car chipped her windshield on the Richardson Highway. Agustin is accused of pulling up alongside the other driver, swerving in front of her and slamming on her brakes to come to a complete stop. Agustin also is accused of throwing an ice cream cone at the other driver’s windshield.

• William Arlow Daniels, 43, of Fairbanks, was charged with fourth-degree assault after being arrested by troopers early Wednesday morning. Daniels is accused of beating up his neighbor, according to court records. The neighbor told troopers he tried to intervene when Daniels began assaulting his girlfriend. Daniels began punching the neighbor. Troopers found the victim, who called 911, lying in the intersection of Farmers Loop and Candamar Road. He was bleeding from facial injuries.

• A Fairbanks man was charged with assault for threatening his ex-wife Tuesday night. Robert Joseph Dilimone told the woman, who still lives with him, that he was going to “knock her teeth down her throat” for throwing several items against the wall during an argument, according to a criminal complaint. Dilimone also was charged with interfering with a report of a crime involving domestic violence for allegedly threatening to choke the woman with the telephone cord when she called 911.

Robbery

A man told Fairbanks police that he was robbed of $300 at gunpoint Wednesday night on 17th Avenue. The robber wore a black hoodie and a spray-painted Halloween mask, according to the police log.