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Spokane’s Wild Past: Pilots and Booze | Spokane News
In 1976, Michael Frazier got busted for stealing and crashing a Cessna—then racked up a $5K FAA civil suit for reckless, unlicensed flying. He served six months for larceny, but the FAA wasn’t done: they wanted him grounded forever. Meanwhile, in 1926, Spokane’s Board of Trade accused an “Austrian liquor ring” of running 50 moonshine dens, employing 250 mostly immigrant workers—and claimed native-born Americans had vanished from the scene. Two wildly different crimes, fifty years apart, both exposing Spokane’s struggle to keep order amid chaos. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli…
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