Alaska pilot seeks SCOTUS relief in case in which three beer cases led to forfeiture of $95K plane

Pilot Kenneth Jouppi, 82, is challenging an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that upheld the forfeiture of his Cessna over three ...

For Cases of Beer, the Plane Was Seized

In April 2012, Mr. Jouppi agreed to fly a passenger from Fairbanks, where she had bought a load of groceries, to her home in ...
Yahoo

An Alaska Man's $95,000 Plane Was Seized Over a 6-Pack of Beer. Now He's Taking His Case to the Supreme Court.

An Alaska man is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether the government's seizure of his $95,000 plane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine under the Eighth ...
Reason

Alaska has been trying to seize Ken Jouppi's Cessna for 13 years over a misdemeanor crime.

An Alaska man is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether the government's seizure of his $95,000 plane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine under the Eighth ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Alaska’s decision to seize a bootlegger’s plane could end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

In 2012, Alaska State Troopers arrested Fairbanks pilot Ken Jouppi and seized his aircraft after charging him with bootlegging for shipping beer into the dry community of Beaver. Now, after 13 years ...
The New York Times

Beer Aboard a Flight to a Dry Alaska Town Risks a Pilot’s $95,000 Plane

In 2012, a state trooper in Fairbanks, Alaska, said that Kenneth J. Jouppi knowingly tried to fly into a dry community with a six-pack on board. Now, he may lose his plane. By Hank Sanders A six-pack ...