A/c Mechanic Gets Time Served

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GREENSBORO -- A former Peruvian naval commander is the latest ex-mechanic at TIMCO sentenced on charges stemming from an investigation of illegal immigrants working for the aircraft maintenance company at Piedmont Triad International Airport.
U.S. District Judge N. Carlton Tilley Jr. sentenced Percy A. Vega, 54, to 110 days behind bars for possessing a fraudulent green card, the amount of time he has already served since his March 8 arrest.
Vega is a retired military officer known during his days in the Peruvian armed forces as a friend to U.S. drug agents fighting traffickers in cocaine and other narcotics in Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley. His family said they fled Peru after drug traffickers threatened his life in the early 1990s.
Vega was among 27 people affiliated with TIMCO arrested on immigration charges at PTI in early March, many because their once-legal visas expired.

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Wrist firmly slapped, Mr. Vega will doubtless be back tightening down seats for TIMCO soon. After all, all he did was break the law.

Anyone who thinks that installing seats is not a safety issue has never seen the effects of a rejected takeoff or other high-energy stop event on an airliners seats or seat tracks.