{"id":52566,"date":"2019-09-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-villagers-pay-airfare-in-effort-to-keep-out-drugs\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T17:30:00","slug":"alaska-villagers-pay-airfare-in-effort-to-keep-out-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-villagers-pay-airfare-in-effort-to-keep-out-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska villagers pay airfare in effort to keep out drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE &mdash;<\/strong> Residents of a small Alaska city purchased a one-way airplane ticket for a woman believed to be dealing drugs as a way of fighting the spread of narcotics there, a report said.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 Galena residents gathered at the airport last week and sent a representative to an arriving plane to tell a woman they believed to be a methamphetamine dealer that they would pay her $210 airfare to leave, The Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The woman chose to remain on the plane and take a departing flight after being told she would be closely watched if she remained.<\/p>\n<p>Drug dealers are known to residents of the 475-member community 270 miles west of Fairbanks, said Mayor Nolan Aloysius. Nonetheless, community members encounter legal difficulties in stopping their activities.<\/p>\n<p>The city is served by one police officer and a state trooper, who were both off-duty the day of the encounter, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The airport intervention followed a recent town hall meeting at which residents vowed to confront people believed to be drug dealers attempting to enter the area. When a resident of another community phoned Galena to alert them to the woman&rsquo;s arrival, residents acted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People started calling, texting each other, and word went out fast,&rdquo; Aloysius said. &ldquo;Everyone took time from their jobs, ran over to the airport and made their presence known.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A woman held a hand-written sign saying, &ldquo;No drug dealers allowed.&rdquo; A man wore black clothes and led a dog on a leash to look the part of a drug agent, demonstrators said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a general feeling of accomplishment and people were proud to be part of it,&rdquo; Aloysius said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><ins>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/ins><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents purchased a one-way plane ticket for a woman believed to be dealing drugs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":52567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[59],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-52566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52566"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}