In a dry village, a man is charged with assault after furnishing a teen alcohol

Tuntutuliak is a dry village — a Yup'ik community on the Kuskokwim Delta where alcohol is banned, one of many Alaska villages that adopted such rules to keep alcohol-fueled harm at bay. That context sits at the center of the charges troopers filed this month against Jared Enoch, 24, who is accused of furnishing alcohol to a teenager and then sexually assaulting them.

Enoch faces two counts of sexual assault, one count of sexual abuse of a minor, and a separate charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor in a dry village, which is its own crime under Alaska law. He is being held at the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. The charges are accusations; he is presumed innocent unless and until the state proves them in court.