FBI to investigate controversial Sitka arrest, tasing event

The Anchorage FBI office will be taking a leadership role in the investigation of the 2014 tasing of a teenager in a Sitka jail cell. Franklin Hoogendorn, age 18, was a student at Mt. Edgecumbe High School when he was arrested and tased by three officers, while in custody of the Sitka Police Department.
The FBI has 56 field offices throughout the country, and one of them is in Anchorage, Alaska. Part of the bureau’s mandate is to investigate color of law issues, or instances where the