More New Year’s Eve cop-shop stupidity
At the Fairbanks International Airport and at Denali National Park in Alaska
Posted on 1/2/2026 1:54:48 PM by DPS\dwbozman
On 01/01/2026 AST and Denali National Park Rangers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle and contacted the vehicle near Mile 228 Parks Highway. During the investigation AST contacted Zihao Jin, age 20 from Florida and he was in possession of a fake ID and marijuana. Jin was arrested and remanded to FCC and held without bail pending arraignment for Obtaining an access device by Fraudulent means, Fraudulent use of an ID card, Possession of Fraudulent ID, and MICS 6th. Further investigation determined the occupant of the vehicle made a mistake and took the wrong vehicle from the Airport car lot in Fairbanks. The vehicle was returned to the owner.
Apparently Zihao Jin’s ID was determined or assumed to be fake after he had cleared the TSA checkpoint and boarded an airplane quite possibly in Florida, and eventually landed and rented a car at Fairbanks International Airport.
Airport Rentals
It would be quite useful and necessary to the public order to serve a subpœna or public records request under the Freedom Of Information Act on the Alaska State Troopers and the Denali National Park Rangers ordering them to disclose which of the rental agencies, and which of their employees in particular at the airport is falsely reporting paying customers as thieves for renting cars.
As for the young man who rented the car at the airport, presumably that’s the car key he was given at the rental agency, and car he lawfully rented with permission if he didn’t take it by force.
“MICS 6th” is totally inexplicable on a police report or in court. A crime of murder might possibly be charged as such “in the second degree” in some states if the crime is not “aggravated” or “premeditated” as “murder in the first degree” and if it is not classified as a “manslaughter” or “involuntary homicide” of some sort not amounting to “murder” as such. However the “third degree” of a criminal offense is not something we generally permit to cops and courts in America, and a fourth or fifth degree of some alleged offense is enough to result in an automatic disbarment. A “sixth degree” of any named criminal offense, needless to say, is totally beyond the pale of law or order or anything that would possibly be subject to due process or any rational discussion in court. How much rationalizing or billing by the hour for attorney’s fees is permitted by the bar to be charged in court to explain away the first five degrees of the alleged offense before copping a plea in the sixth degree of whatever offense it is?