 This undated photo provided by Husky Homestead shows Banjo, a dog that was injured when a man drove a snowmobile into teams of two mushers near the front of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday,... (Associated Press) 
 
 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man suspected of intentionally driving a snowmobile into teams of two mushers near the front of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has been arrested in a Yukon River village. Alaska State Troopers said Saturday they had caught the snowmobiler responsible. They charged 26-year-old Arnold Demoski of Nulato, a community of about 350 people, with assault, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and criminal mischief after the incidents that left mushers Jeff King of Denali Park and Aliy Zirkle of Fairbanks badly shaken. It was so incredibly close -- my team was well lit, with lights and reflectors -- that it felt very intentional," King said. 'I don't know how I can make it right' Snowmachiner talks before arrest 
 
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 A 26-year-old Nulato man says he was returning home from Koyukuk after a night of drinking when he struck Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King's teams in the early hours of Saturday with his snowmachine. VIDEO: Jeff King describes moment a snowmachine struck his team, killing 1 dog 
 
 A natural resources coordinator for the village tribal council, Demoski said Jeff King was his favorite musher growing up. "One of my dogs was killed pretty much on the spot, and a couple others I gave first aid to the best I could and loaded them into my sled," he told the Iditarod camera crew. (Jeff King Husky Homestead) (Jeff King Husky Homestead) 
 
 Still, he somehow remembered going back to see whether Zirkle was OK, and then deciding he didn't want to stop and talk to her because he might get in trouble. A piece of cowling from the snowmachine broke off during the attack on King's team and the musher brought it with him to Nulato as evidence. The cowling matched that missing from Demoski's sled, which was parked in his yard. Officials of the Iditarod and the Nulato Tribal Council were quick to blame alcohol for what happened and express sympathy for the two mushers. “We are disturbed and saddened that celebrated Iditarod veteran dog teams led by Jeff King and Aliy Zirkle were struck by a resident of our village,” the tribe said in a written statement. “Nulato recognizes the complex behavioral health issues that impact our village and we ask for prayers as we seek wellness for all.” 
 
 Nulato is what is known as a “damp” village in rural Alaska, where alcohol laws are complicated. "It seemed like an act of bravado," King said. She twice told “Iditarod Insider,” a pay-per-view video news service run by Iditarod organizers, that the snowmobile driver “tried to kill me.” 
 
 According to state troopers, Zirkle was about five miles downriver from Koyukuk headed for Nulato when her dog sled was first hit on “the side by a snow machine and the snow machine turned around multiple times and came back at her before driving off.” 
 
 Those reports said the machine then went on down the river but later returned and approached her again about 12 miles out of Nulato. "The snow machine revved up and was pointed at her and then finally left the area with no further injuries to Zirkle or her team," Troopers wrote. Demoski's mother said troopers and a Nulato village public safety officer came and took her son to jail around noon Saturday after his interviews with reporters who were in the village to cover the Iditarod race. She said she believed he had been in an accident. “They say it was an accident, so I believe it was,'' she said in telephone interview. He grew up in a time when sled dogs were a way of life in Alaska. Rural Alaska communities have many wonderful people, he said, but they also have serious social problems. Reached by telephone at his home, Rudy Demoski said he didn't want to talk about the incident. In a video by the Iditarod Insider, when asked how she was by a race official, she responded, "Really bad... After leaving injured dogs in the care of race veterinarians in Nulato, both Zirkle and King were continuing north along the trail late Saturday afternoon.
– The 26-year-old Alaskan who says he was driving blackout drunk when he hit two Iditarod sled dog teams Saturday, killing one dog and injuring others, has been arrested and charged on suspicion of assault, reckless endangerment, reckless driving, and six counts of criminal mischief, reports the Los Angeles Times. Arnold Demoski of Nulato is speaking quite freely with media, telling KTUU that the incident was not "intentional. That's not me. I don't do stuff like that." Mushers Jeff King and Aliy Zirkle, who were hit, beg to differ, telling authorities they believe the incident was intentional. King's 3-year-old dog, Nash, was killed. "One of my dogs was killed pretty much on the spot, and a couple others I gave first aid to the best I could and loaded them into my sled," King says, per the AP. "I kind of felt like a triage ambulance." Demoski says he woke up after the morning after a night of drinking to discover that his snowmobile was missing its hood and had fresh, rust-colored stains on its sides. He called the village police officer to confess, he says. Asked whether he should face jail, Demoski tells KTUU that although he hopes to avoid it, he probably should go "for at least some time."