JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 22 -- The Alaska Department of Law (Attorney General) issued the following news release:

September 18, 2026

(Anchorage, AK) - Today Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Ramgren sentenced 44-year-old Adam Darius Pringle for the March 2022 killing of Keenan Wegener. In Dec. 2025, an Anchorage jury convicted Pringle of Murder in the Second Degree and Manslaughter. Judge Ramgren sentenced Pringle to 55 years active jail time. Daniel Alex Rocero, Pringle's co-defendant, was convicted in May 2023 and sentenced in Sept. 2023 to 50 years active jail time.

At trial, the evidence showed Pringle and Rocero beat Wegener with an 8-pound, metal sledgehammer, stood on Wegener's neck and chest, then stuffed his body in a tote. Wege...