Fairbanks man accepts plea deal in death of police informant
Published Friday, March 28, 2008
A 23-year-old Fairbanks man pleaded no contest to first-degree murder Friday in connection with the shooting death of a drug dealer turned police informant.
Curtis Johnson faces up to 50 years in prison for fatally shooting 23-year-old Brandon Steward in the back of the neck at a South Fairbanks trailer park on Jan. 14, 2007, according to a plea deal outlined in court documents.
Steward had been a confidential informant with the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement until a few weeks before his death.
Authorities are dropping a charge of hindering prosecution against Johnson’s father, also named Curtis, under the plea deal. The elder Johnson was suspected of harboring his son, who was on the run for several weeks last spring after a grand jury indicted him.
A suspected accomplice in the killing, Garry G. Lawrence Jr., is set to change his plea on Wednesday in Fairbanks Superior Court.
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