American Airlines AMT guilty of smuggling cocaine.

[WeAAsles]

Damned if I can ever understand why people are stupid enough to do these things. Greed, desperation?

American Airlines Mechanic Found Guilty of Smuggling $320,000 Worth of Cocaine into the U.S. Hidden in a Compartment Under the Cockpit

An aircraft mechanic who worked for American Airlines at New York JFK Airport has been found guilty of smuggling $320,000 worth of cocaine into the United States after Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers found ten bricks of cocaine hidden inside a special compartment under the cockpit of an...

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[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Damned if I can ever understand why people are stupid enough to do these things. Greed, desperation?

American Airlines Mechanic Found Guilty of Smuggling $320,000 Worth of Cocaine into the U.S. Hidden in a Compartment Under the Cockpit

An aircraft mechanic who worked for American Airlines at New York JFK Airport has been found guilty of smuggling $320,000 worth of cocaine into the United States after Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers found ten bricks of cocaine hidden inside a special compartment under the cockpit of an...

www.paddleyourownkanoo.com

Maybe the fact Mechanics in JFK can't live on TUL pay?

Maybe?

 

[eolesen]

Nobody in the US does this out of despair. They do it from the arrogance of not having been caught the dozens of times they did it before.

The folks outside the US are another story. They're coerced and threatened by the cartels and risk death if they don't cooperate. Here, it's all about the money.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Nobody in the US does this out of despair. They do it from the arrogance of not having been caught the dozens of times they did it before.

I don't agree with that. I think street gangs coerce young children into dealing all the time.

Some probably do it for protection.

 

[Kev3188]

Pretty sure E was talking about people with SIDA badges, and not kids on the corner.

 

[eolesen]

Yup.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Pretty sure E was talking about people with SIDA badges, and not kids on the corner.

Yup.

Thank you for the clarification.