Current Events > Suspected Drug dealer confronted at airport, told to leave by residents

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https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2019/08/31/galena-boots-out-suspected-dealer-buying-her-ticket-out-of-town/

A crowd of about 40 protesters fed up with illegal drug use in their Alaska village gathered along the Galena airport runway on Wednesday and presented a choice to a suspected methamphetamine dealer who had just landed, residents said.

A village resident chosen as a spokesperson climbed aboard and discreetly delivered the message: Stay in the village and have every move scrutinized. Or, leave town and well cover your ticket home.

The woman chose option two, and never left the plane.

A few years ago several were banished from another town

https://www.timesleader.com/uncategorized/638001/talker-alaskas-allakaket-village-banishes-4-for-dealing-meth

FAIRBANKS, Alaska Four people have been banished from a remote Alaska tribal village for dealing methamphetamine, community leaders said Thursday.

Twenty-five residents of Allakaket confronted the suspected dealers and put them on a Tuesday afternoon flight to Fairbanks, Allakaket Chief PJ Simon told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

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If more people did this we wouldn't need cops.

Alternatively, because of Alaska being a remote wilderness, townspeople could make suspected drug dealers just disappear, and authorities can just chalk it up as tourists getting eaten by polar bears.

Still gotta deal with rampant alcoholism though.
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