Man in Tuktoyaktuk charged with bootlegging after RCMP seize over 30L of vodka
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RCMP in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., have charged one man after seizing over 30 litres of vodka in the partially dry community.
In a news release Monday, RCMP say police had received information that residents from Tukoyaktuk purchased “a significant quantity” of alcohol in Dawson City, Yukon.
Officers executed a search warrant on Nov. 27 and found 36 750-millilitre vodka bottles and 12 375-millilitre bottles.
The man has been charged with the unlawful sale and supply of alcohol.
Tuktoyaktuk is one of 10 “restricted” communities in the N.W.T. when it comes to alcohol. People in the community are not allowed to bring more than 2.28 litres of alcohol within 25 kilometres of the hamlet office.
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