JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 5 -- The Alaska Department of Law (Attorney General) issued the following news release:
August 28, 2026
(Kodaik, AK) - On Aug. 27, 2026, a Kodiak jury convicted Malik Johnson, 26, of Scheme to Defraud and Theft in the First Degree for his role in a phone scam that resulted in the theft of $48,000 from a 65-year-old Kodiak woman in 2024.
On Sept. 6, 2024, a Kodiak woman received a phone call from someone purporting to be from her banking institution. The caller advised her that another person was illegally accessing her bank account and persuaded her that she needed to move her money out of the account to protect it. She authorized a $48,000 wire transfer out of her account. Investigation revealed that the wire trans...