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 ...
Newsweek

Images Show NORAD Planes Escort Russian Aircraft Near Alaska

Images shared with Newsweek have shown NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) aircraft escorting Russian military planes that flew within 30 nautical miles of the U.S. mainland. NORAD said ...
Reuters

NORAD scrambles fighter jets to intercept Russian planes off Alaska

Sept 25 (Reuters) - The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday to identify and intercept four Russian military planes off Alaska, the U.S and Canadian ...
USA Today

NORAD scrambles fighter jets to intercept Russian planes off Alaska

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday to identify and intercept four Russian military planes off Alaska, the U.S and Canadian defense organization ...
People

Alaska Man, 28, Found Guilty After Repeatedly Molesting Minor Seated Next to Him on Plane

Trayton Ballot is now facing up to two years in federal prison when he is sentenced in December David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Trayton Ballot, 28, of Deering, Alaska molested a 17-year-old girl on an ...
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Nothing Compares To Seeing Alaska by Bush Plane

It’s official: Alaska doesn’t have a bad side. Take in the photogenic beauty of the Great Land by bush plane as you soar over glaciers and shimmy past towering mountain peaks before touching down amid ...
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Ex-Alaska pilot accused of stopping plane mid-flight will spend 50 days in jail

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Joseph Emerson, the off-duty pilot who tried to stop a plane mid-flight, was convicted Friday on 83 counts of reckless endangering another person in a Multnomah County Circuit ...
Alaska Public Media

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 ...
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 ...
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Float Plane Into the Alaskan Wilderness: Bush Flying & Remote Camp Arrival

Hop aboard a float plane out of Anchorage and journey deep into Alaska’s backcountry. From Lake Hood’s buzzing seaplane harbor to landing on a glacier-fed lake, we set up camp, meet the lodge dogs, ...