The Alaska State Troopers drug unit Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs arrested a Haines resident on May 15 for misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree, a Class B felony, at the Juneau airport attempting to bring 43 grams of methamphetamine into Haines.

The meth was worth about $8,600 and was equivalent to about 172 doses, Trooper Scott Carson said.

Carson said his agency received a tip that the individual was traveling from…