Kotzebue Police Department

Police say 27-year-old inmate Kenneth Foster started a fight with Corrections officer Lorin Downing, who entered his cell after Foster threatened to harm himself.

The Kotzebue Police Department announced Sgt. David "Mike" Cox’s resignation Thursday afternoon, following an internal investigation. The announcement came only hours after KOTZ News reached out to the department about the comments Cox made a month ago on a Facebook page operated by a South Carolina law enforcement agency.

Court records show 67-year-old Steven Farmer is charged with second-degree assault in the case.

Kotzebue police work a little differently than in bigger cities in Alaska. For starters, most of them aren’t residents of the city, or even the state.