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U.S. Air Marshals Plead Guilty to Drug Smuggling

Your air transportation safety in action. While this sort of criminal activity is rare, it is more troubling when travesties such as this occur as well.

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

Two U.S. air marshals pleaded guilty Monday to accepting money to smuggle cocaine on a flight to Las Vegas and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

The marshals admitted they accepted $15,000 to use their positions as air marshals to bypass airport security and smuggle 15 pounds of cocaine.

posted by Fergie @ 4/04/2006 05:57:00 AM