A 22-year-old Anchorage woman was arrested and charged after she allegedly tried to smuggle alcohol to a dry village in Western Alaska.
Nicole Parduhn is charged with alcohol importation and possessing alcohol for sale without a license or permit — both of which are class C felonies, according to an online dispatch from Alaska State Troopers.
On Sunday, investigators in Bethel looked into a report that Parduhn was smuggling alcohol into Pilot Station, which is a dry village. Authorities found she had 35 750-millimeter bottles of distilled spirits in her checked luggage, troopers wrote.
Parduhn was arrested and remanded to the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. Court records indicate she was arraigned Monday morning.
Roughly 630 people live in the Yukon River community of Pilot Station, according to state data.
