Here’s your headlines:
1) An American Airlines baggage handler with a nose for the sticky-icky broke up a federal agent’s weed-smuggling route through LAX this week. According to the U.S. Attorney’s release, 23 year-old Millage Peaks of Los Angeles paid 28 year-old TSA Agent Dianna Perez about $5,500 to move bricks of cannabis past baggage security on nine different occasions. But that all ended the morning of Sunday, October 16, when Peaks met Perez at the curbside check-in area outside Terminal 4 at LAX, and took Peaks’ bags to a TSA screening room. The complaint alleges that Perez returned a few minutes later and waved at Peaks, indicating that “everything was good.” Later, the Los Angeles Airport Police responded to a report by a baggage handler with American Airlines “who smelled marijuana emanating from one of the bags checked in by Peaks. Peaks’ bags, which were destined for Boston’s Logan Airport, were then removed and searched by TSA personnel. Fourteen plastic bags, containing what LAXPD officers believed amounted to approximately ten to fifteen pounds of marijuana, were found concealed inside Peaks’ bags. … The complaint alleges that Peaks planned to travel to Boston to resell the marijuana which he obtained the previous day in San Francisco for $38,000. …”
2) “The Drug War has corrupted private and public institutions wherever it has reached. Worst are bribes to police, border control officials, Drug Enforcement Agency agents, and even military personnel involved in interdiction efforts. The taint also reaches prosecutors, judges, and politicians,” notes Forbes, in an op-ed from the Cato Institute on ending the Drug War.
