Local Ketchikan jeweler to pay for misrepresenting products

Local Ketchikan jeweler to pay for misrepresenting products

Gold Rush, located in downtown Ketchikan, is one of the few locally owned and operated jewelry stores in town that operates year-round. (Sydney Dauphinais/KRBD) A Ketchikan jeweler will have to pay a $10,000 settlement to the state of Alaska for misrepresenting their products. Jai Mahtani, the owner of Gold Rush, told undercover investigators that all of the products in the store were “locally sourced” when they were not mined in Alaska. Mahtani…