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| Commonplace until the '90s, state is closing the book on mug shots |
| By anchoragepress.com - Scott Christiansen |
| Published: 05/17/2013 |
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Steve McQueen looks cocky in his mug shots, which might be the most famous photos ever snapped by cops in Anchorage. The two photos show the actor smirking, standing in front of a wall painted with horizontal lines to measure his height. There’s a scrape on the bridge of his nose, a minor flesh wound that might have been fresh from a scuffle with police. The movie star is flashing a peace sign at the camera, pushing his hand in front of a sign that features his name, birthday, and the cryptic code “AJ 19261” in white plastic letters. The McQueen booking photos—which have an enduring life on the Internet—and newspaper reports that were wired across the country in late June of 1972, seem to be all that remain of the actor’s supposed arrest in Anchorage. The courthouse trail is cold. I spent nearly an hour flipping through tiny blue index cards in a vintage steel cabinet at Anchorage’s Nesbitt Courthouse. Plenty of men with surnames beginning with “Mc” and “M” have court cases with corresponding cards in that steel catalogue. Just to be sure, I checked under “N” and under years other than 1972, and among civil cases—anyplace I thought the card could be misfiled. I found no court case for “Steve T. McQueen” or “Terence S. McQueen” or any other version of the actor’s name. His case seems to have disappeared from the Alaska Court System. Maybe someone took the blue card as a memento, not unlikely given his fame, or maybe McQueen’s case never made it to court, also not unlikely given his fame. Read More. |
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