Someone took two pieces of Alaska Department of Transportation equipment for a joyride near 19 Mile Haines Highway last week, lodging a street sweeper in the mud and then using an excavator to cover the street sweeper with dirt.
The equipment was parked near 19 Mile for clearing debris from the recurrent slides there, said DOT foreman Matt Boron. The keys were in the equipment.
The person, or people, who commandeered the machinery on Sept.…
