Investigators arrested Ulroan four days later and remanded him to the custody of the Anvil Mountain correctional center, a news release said. Photograph: Matt Rourke/APView image in fullscreenInvestigators arrested Ulroan four days later and remanded him to the custody of the Anvil Mountain correctional center, a news release said. Photograph: Matt Rourke/APEx-Alaska mayor and ‘parent of the year’ charged with sexual abuse of minorsUlric Ulroan charged on 47 criminal counts amid allegations he sexually assaulted teenage girls from 2009-2025
The former mayor of a city in Alaska – who has also coached high school girls basketball and won a parent of the year award – has been criminally charged on allegations that he sexually assaulted several teenage girls over a yearslong period, according to authorities in that state.
Ulric Ulroan, 48, first drew scrutiny from Alaska’s bureau of investigation in January, when the agency received a tip that he had purportedly inflicted sexual abuse on a 17-year-old girl in the village of Chevak between 2009 and 2010. The tip prompted an investigation which brought forth more reports of Ulroan having “sexually assaulted and/or abused various teenage girls” between 2009 and 2025 in Chevak as well as the Alaska communities of Anchorage, Mountain Village and Nome, officials said in a news release published on Friday.
That news release said a grand jury in Bethel, Alaska, then handed up an indictment on charging Ulroan on Tuesday with 47 criminal counts – among them sexual assault in the first degree, first- and second-degree sexual abuse, second-degree indecent exposure and furnishing alcohol to a person under the legal drinking age of 21.
Investigators arrested Ulroan four days later and remanded him to the custody of the Anvil Mountain correctional center. The Alaska news outlet KNOM reported that bail for Ulroan was set at $250,000, and state records showed he remained at the Anvil Mountain jail as of Sunday.
The Alaska bureau of investigation’s news release said state troopers “believe that there could be additional victims” of Ulroan whom they have not identified. They asked anyone with information that could help investigators working on Ulroan’s case to call them.
The news release didn’t elaborate on details. But the Alaska news outlet KTUU reported that some of the charges against Ulroan allege he “was in a position of authority over the victims while committing these crimes”.
View image in fullscreenUlric Ulroan, 48. Photograph: Alaska department of public safetyAnd, citing remarks from Brian Wassmann, the state troopers’ investigator, KTUU also reported that “there are at least six victims” involved in the indictment against Ulroan.
Beside coaching high school basketball, Ulroan was a certified foster parent from 2005 to 2023, Alaska state troopers said in their news release. He was described at the time of his arrest as living in Nome, which – given Alaska’s expansiveness – is about 200 miles (320km) away from Chevak by airplane.
KNOM reported that Ulroan worked as a pilot in Nome for the regional flight provider Bering Air.
Furthermore, KTUU reported that Ulroan had once served on the governing council of Chevak, which is populated by fewer than 1,000 residents. And by about 2007 he was the city’s mayor, according to KTUU.
An article published by the Alaska Dispatch in 2013 subsequently referred to Ulroan as Chevak’s “longtime mayor” and a schoolteacher.
Ulroan was regarded highly enough in his state that in 2019 he and his wife, Mary, shared recognition as parents of the year from the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN).
The group wrote that the Ulroans had six children and three grandchildren, whom they pushed to thrive “in academics and sports”.
“Ulric’s advice to youth is, ‘Just do it,’ to start something without hesitation,” a news release from the AFN at the time said of Ulroan. “His late grandmother’s advice [is] ‘no matter what anyone does to you, leave them alone and do anything back.’”
That news release also noted that Ulroan’s late mother had taught him “to pray for others who do harm to you”.
Mary Ulroan reportedly shared a statement with KNOM in which she said her husband’s arrest marked an “extremely painful time”.
The statement said she could not comment beyond that “because this is an active legal matter”. But Mary Ulroan’s statement did assert that her “first priority is the safety and wellbeing of all people affected and the privacy of my own children as they navigate this difficult situation”.
“I respectfully ask for compassion and privacy for our family, especially my children,” Mary Ulroan’s statement to KNOM said.
