Alaska State Troopers

In this heart-stopping episode of Alaska State Troopers, we look back on all five of our season's most memorable and jaw-dropping stories, from life or death face-offs, to the kookiest of characters. We countdown the Troopers' top takedowns, best foot pursuits, and most memorable characters that have keep the Alaska State Troopers busy from morning until night, 365 days a year.

In this heart-stopping episode of Alaska State Troopers, look back on all five seasons’ most memorable and jaw-dropping stories, from suspenseful armed encounters to outrageous arrests. Witness the fastest and craziest high-speed pursuits, as well as the greatest and scariest life-or-death rescue missions.

At the 2009 Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic--Alaskas version of Mardi Gras--troopers face a massive law enforcement challenge as roughly 10,000 people celebrate and snowmachine enthusiasts test their skills. The races and parties last for 4 days in the remote Hoodoo Mountains, and its up to just 13 Alaska State Troopers to keep the peace, enforce the laws, and perform dangerous search and rescue missions. Then in Fairbanks, troopers fight crime and undergo a nighttime training exercise while another trooper and his K-9 partner search a suspicious vehicle. And wildlife troopers have their hands full during the moose hunting season: theyre on the case when several illegally killed animals are discovered.

Unforgivable terrain mixed with big city crime makes challenging work for troopers in Soldotna, a city on the Kenai Peninsula. Trooper Brent Hatch responds to an ATV accident where an intoxicated youth lashes out. After a struggle, the youth ends up inside the walls of Wildwood Pretrial Facility. Then, a trooper investigates a collision between a motorcyclist and a semi truck, while another tracks down an 11-year-old runaway. Several troopers spend hours searching pitch black woods for a suspect who has previously assaulted an officer, and a wildlife trooper hits the waterways of the Kenai River. Alaska has the highest rate of missing persons reports in the country, and troopers are responsible for search and rescue missions. They must take to the skies to find two hunters stranded in the southeastern wilderness, an area with one of the highest concentrations of bear mauling in Alaska.

In the Alaskan outback, alcohol abuse is devastating communities and sending crime rates through the roof. Enforcing the law in this vast and nearly road-less region presents extreme challenges. The jail is located over a hundred miles from some of the native Alaskan villages where crimes are committed, and its the job of the State Troopers to haul suspects in. But in a world almost empty of roads, the job requires risky plane flights and boat trips for Troopers traveling alone with potentially dangerous offenders. Once in jail, untested inmates must defend themselves against tougher and more aggressive convicts, while guards strive to keep homemade alcohol out of the jail so that mayhem doesnt prevail.

A handful of troopers attempt to keep the peace between 12,000 partiers at Arctic Man. But heavy drinking, downhill ski races and high powered snow machines make this annual event a challenge.

Alaska State Troopers use the frozen Bering Sea as an airstrip in order to reach one of the most remote villages in America, where they deal with everything from an arrest to polar bears.

From search and rescue missions atop massive mountains to street crime in the freezing Alaska night, there's nothing Alaska State Troopers won't tackle.

A trooper clashes with an intoxicated gold miner in the Season 4 opener. Also: a search-and-rescue mission for missing snow-machine riders.

Snowflakes fall as Trooper Howie Peterson responds to a snow-machine accident where the victim may be dead or alive. As night falls, he frantically sets out into the backwoods of avalanche country to find the man. Then, a horrific stabbing sends trooper Blake Calhoun on a search for the stabber in a maze of unsecured cabins, where the potentially armed man could be hiding behind any door. Later, Trooper Anthony Stariha tries to catch a speeding vehicle before reaching the populous town center.

Winter has seized Alaska, and Trooper Timothy Cronin gets a chilling call sounding like a domestic violence situation involving a chainsaw. But to get to this rural area, Trooper Cronin has to navigate through record snowfall. Then, Trooper Howie Peterson is greeted by a man at a cabin with a 15-inch knife and a rifle. Finally, Trooper Anne Sears responds to a crime against a village public safety officer and has to fly in unpredictable weather. Time to bring the rifles.

Spring approaches and the Iditarod sled race heats up in the Season 5 opener. Also: Troopers go head-to-head with a suspicious man at a gas station; and a woman escapes an alleged abuser by running down the highway.

A man who recently escaped from a mental-health facility poses a threat in the Mat-Su Valley; an injured hiker is in need of rescue; hunters take more than their share of resources along Alaska's Inside Passage.

Troopers work through the spring to prevent bear attacks; a man chases campers with a knife; and two troopers track a wanted criminal to a suspicious-looking shed.

The Troopers chase a wanted and dangerous man through a forest, clear small villages from illegal bootleggers, help a man under the influence of drugs, and protect the community from a curious bear.

The Troopers bring down a drug trafficking felon and stop illegal hunters from slaying helpless fowl, while Wildlife Troopers investigate the mysterious appearance of several trucks that have torn up a nature preserve in the Mat-Su Valley.

The Troopers battle a crippling forest fire, handle a nail-biting standoff and take on a drug-filled traffic stop. With wilderness conditions out of their hands and a desperate gunman firing at random, Troopers never know how each shift will end.

Investigating illegal fur trappers in the Denali wilderness; a hunter using unlawful bait; a residential fire with ammunition inside the home.

The show features a dog saved from wildlife and a hunt for dangerous wild lynx.

After a long winter, Alaskans greet the emerging spring full throttle and for the most competitive among them, spring means one thing: the world-famous Iditarod Sled Dog Race. The Alaska State Troopers are on hand to start the race off safely.

During Alaska’s summer solstice, Alaska State Troopers confront a fleeing suspect, defuse an armed barricade and investigate arson near the Arctic Circle. One wild night of endless daylight tests the limits of law in the Last Frontier.

Alaska State Troopers pursue gas thieves, use pepper balls to arrest a barricaded suspect and respond to shots fired in a remote village—showing the risks of policing Alaska’s wild terrain.

It's a wild Alaska summer day as troopers locate a naked wolf hunter, track a suspected felon through the woods and respond to an animal hoarder in a remote village just north of the Arctic Circle.