I miss that place

This was an article in the Fairbanks News-Miner. It made a bunch of other newspapers, even the New York Times. My connection? I taught in Venetie for over five years. Nathan was one of my students in preschool and kindergarten.
Sigh...

Venetie man uses chain saw to steal tobacco
By Chris Freiberg
Published Thursday, September 18, 2008

FAIRBANKS -- A Venetie man is accused of using a chain saw to break into the village’s store and stealing thousands of dollars worth of tobacco and candy.
Nathan Jones Henry, 19, has been charged with second-degree burglary and second-degree theft, both felonies.
A manager called Alaska State Troopers on Monday morning after discovering that the items were missing and finding a 3-foot hole in one side of the log building that had apparently been cut by a chain saw.
A short time later, the manager spotted two cases of cigarettes outside Henry’s home. When Henry was questioned about them, he claimed to have no knowledge of how they got there.
A man accompanying the manager located two more crates of cigarettes as well as candy and chewing tobacco in a back room of the home.
When questioned by a trooper, Henry at first said he was sleeping and didn’t know how the items got there, but he later admitted to taking them, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. He also told the trooper that some items he left next to the store had been taken by someone else while he was transporting other items to his house.
The cigarettes alone were valued at more than $2,400. Prices are typically higher in villages off the road system, and a pack of cigarettes goes for more than $8 in Venetie, a small community of about 200 people north of Fairbanks.