ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Major Anthony “Tony” April is retiring from the Alaska State Troopers after nearly three decades in uniform. April, who grew up as one of 10 children in Miami, Florida, said his path to law enforcement started in an unlikely place. “I grew up in the projects, what they would call the hood,” April said. “In Miami, it was crack cocaine. It was killing.” His mother grew up in the segregated South, where blacks and whites didn’t drink from the same cup.