A woman who lives in a remote region of Alaska where the consumption or possession of alcohol is banned has been arrested after getting drunk on an Alaska Airlines flight to the state’s most populous city, Anchorage, and lashing out at her husband.
Caryn Evan, 38, from the small, remote Alaskan village of Chefornak in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, was arrested on Tuesday night on suspicion of interference with flight crew after Alaska Airlines flight AS46 landed in Anchorage.
Evan and her husband had traveled from Chefornak to Bethel to catch the flight to Anchorage and, once in Bethel Airport, had taken advantage of the city’s more lax alcohol rules and consumed two or three drinks prior to boarding the flight…