Tuesday night, Canadian authorities used an aircraft and a search dog to hunt down an Anchorage man who sought to elude a border check at Beaver Creek on the Alaska Highway. The fugitive is identified as Jason Echeverri, 29. Not much more information is yet available about the incident. The highway into Haines Junction was closed for a while during the search.
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