NEW YORK: US customs arrested a 27-years-old man for attempting transport more than a dozen bottles of alcohol into a dry Western Alaska village.
The alcohol was intercepted in Bethel, where locally based members of the Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team were called to investigate a complaint of “suspicious luggage” believed to contain alcohol from a local air carrier, troopers wrote.
The box contained 14 750 ml bottles of alcohol, and when troopers found its owner, Greg Angaiak, they found he had two more 750 ml bottles with him, they said.
Angaiak and his luggage were both bound for Tununak from Bethel, troopers said.
Tununak, a village of about 384 on the Bering Sea, has banned the sale and importation of alcohol since 1981.
The 16 bottles had an estimated street value of $4,800, troopers said.
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