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Reward program takes bite out of rural bootlegging in AlaskaThirteen bottles of whiskey never made it to the dry village of Kivalina, Alaska in late October, and nine bottles of rum failed to reach Goodnews Bay last week. Alaska State Troopers seized both shipments.
The two busts are a mere drop in the bucket of illegal alcohol sales in rural Alaska, troopers say, but seizures of bootlegged booze are on the rise. To date in 2003, troopers have confiscated almost 3,100 liters of liquor, nearly twice the volume seized in 2001.
Alaska troopers attribute at least part of the increase to a reward program that began last year and pays $50 to $600 for tips on bootlegging activity that result in confiscating booze. The bigger the bust, the bigger the reward, said Lt. Hans Brinke of the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement, a division of the troopers.
The effort has had at least one unanticipated side effect -- some liquor peddlers apparently are turning in their colleagues to shed competition.
"I don't think we have quite the manpower to win the war" on illegal alcohol shipments to the Bush, Brinke said, "but we can make a dent."
Alcohol fuels many of the social woes in rural Alaska, contributing to some of the highest rates in the nation of domestic abuse, sexual assault, accidental death and suicide.
But attempts to rein in alcohol, such as banning importation or possession in the villages most affected by it, have not stopped the flow. Liquor is available in virtually every community, troopers say, because bootlegging is the most profitable drug business in rural Alaska. The troopers' 2002 Drug Report notes that $10 invested in whiskey or other spirits in Anchorage, Alaska is worth $150 or more in small, dry villages. A single 750-milliliter bottle can fetch $250.
In contrast, $10 worth of cocaine would bring only $15 in the Bush; $10 of marijuana might bring $40, troopers say.
Several communities have offered rewards for turning in bootleggers, and some programs still exist. Emmonak, Alaska a village at the mouth of the Yukon River, pays as much as $1,000 for information leading to alcohol or drug convictions. In early October, one tip led to the confiscation of 400 bottles of illegal booze, shutting down a major bootlegging operation.
The troopers' program was funded last year by a federal grant. But recent changes in state law add teeth to the effort, Brinke said, as was demonstrated in a bootlegging bust in Kotzebue late last month.
Troopers got an anonymous call the afternoon of Oct. 29 that an 18-year-old Kivalina, Alaska man was in Kotzebue, Alaska and was expected to fly home later that day with a load of booze. Kivalina banned the sale and importation, Alaska of alcohol in 1985.
A trooper met the man at the Kotzebue, Alaska airport and seized 13 bottles of R&R whiskey, trooper Rex Leath said. The case has been referred to the Kotzebue district attorney.
Bootlegging suspects often surrender when asked if they're carrying liquor, Leath said.
"Usually they say, 'I knew I shouldn't have done it' or 'If I take it out of my bags, can I get on the plane?' "
But suspects can also tell the troopers to buzz off, and, without a search warrant, the person can't be searched or detained, Leath said.
"However, if we feel strongly (that the person is carrying alcohol), we can usually have the public safety officer back in the village ask again," he said. "Then they know we're going to keep an eye on the situation. They're under closer scrutiny in the village."
Recent changes in state law give troopers greater latitude to arrest suspected bootleggers, Leath said. The troopers need only show the person has an airline ticket to a dry village, has checked in for the flight and is found carrying liquor to make an arrest. Under the previous law, suspects had to be within five miles of the dry village before they could be charged, he said.
Sometimes the tip requires more than showing up at an airport, Leath said. Last winter he drove 70 miles on a snowmachine and waited on the trail outside a dry village to intercept a bootlegger. It paid off, he said, netting the state a snowmachine and preventing more than 20 bottles of alcohol from reaching their intended market.
"So far, so good," Leath said of the program. "It's been very productive." He estimated that tips called into the Kotzebue office have netted 150 to 200 bottles this year.
Tipsters often remain anonymous. But callers willing to give their name and a contact number are eligible for a reward, said Brinke, whose office manages the new program.
The troopers pay cash, Brinke said, though they're careful to protect their sources.
"If we start putting money into someone's bank account, they're not anonymous any more," he said. Troopers will also arrange to drop off the cash where the person can find it, or pay them when they come to the troopers' office in the nearest hub community, Brinke said.
Some village residents have suggested that bootleggers themselves may use the reward program to keep their competitors' liquor off the market. That may be the case, Brinke said, but if the tips result in confiscation, the troopers' goal is achieved.
"Even if only one bottle is seized in one week, that has a dramatic impact on the communities out there," he said.
And there's nothing to stop the second bootlegger from ratting out the first.
"Revenge is a strong motivator," Brinke said.
He did not have figures on the total amount of reward money paid to date, or the number of tips received. But calls are increasing as rural Alaskans learn about the program, Brinke said. Troopers have been posting information on village bulletin boards and talking it up when they visit the communities, he said.
Still, the tip program has inherent challenges in tight-knit rural communities. It hasn't made much of a splash in his village, said Glenn Skin, city administrator in Noorvik, a village of 670 east of Kotzebue. People fear being labeled as a snitch, or even worse, getting beat up or having their vehicles vandalized for turning in a bootlegger that everyone knows.
"We're a small village," Skin said. "Word gets around."
But every little bit helps in the ongoing fight against alcohol abuse, said Daniel Scouten of the Bering Sea coast village of Goodnews Bay. "Sometimes you gotta do whatever it takes, because it (alcohol abuse) affects kids," he said. "We're working at it real hard to stop it here."
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