A spokesman for the Anchorage Police Department has resigned after he was charged with shoplifting.
In a statement Thursday, police department officials wrote that Christopher Barraza, 40, shoplifted from a South Anchorage Target store on Aug. 19. He was allegedly wearing his police department-issued jacket at the time.
“He was not believed to be serving in an official capacity for the department at the time of the theft,” police officials wrote…