Thread: Did anyone see this? It's HUGE, but no one really cares...

Huge cocaine stash found on O'Hare plane


Tribune staff report

April 28, 2007, 6:23 PM CDT

Federal officials seized more than 700 pounds of cocaine on Friday from an international flight landing at O'Hare International Airport.

Officers from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection found the drugs on an Aeromex flight from Guadalajara, Mexico, which landed at 11 p.m., officials said.

About 330 bricks of cocaine were found in the commercial airliner's cargo compartment during a routine inspection of baggage. The bricks were wrapped in cellophane, soaked in axle grease and covered with rubber and packaging tape.

The drugs have a street value of about $6.7 million.

The four small cardboard boxes containing the cocaine were not included on the cargo listing.

The seizure is under investigation, and no arrests had been made late Saturday, officials said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...l=chi-news-hed

Now that's getting confident and bold isn't it?
Wonder how many flights from Mexico are inspected?
I doubt many are but hope I'm wrong.
ALL of them should be. Like, duh!

Where was it I saw something about airline companies finding gang tags inside of their cargo holds? They said they believed it was baggage handlers who were gang members doing it.

So it would, or should not be surprising that now they find drugs coming in, with the obvious expectation that the gang handlers at O'Hare would retieve it.

Should it, or has it, been emailed to Lou Dobbs?

I seen this on the news. Just wait till the trucks start rolling into our country from Mexico!

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I seen this on the news. Just wait till the trucks start rolling into our country from Mexico!

Exactly. The NAU super highway.

Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth

Where was it I saw something about airline companies finding gang tags inside of their cargo holds? They said they believed it was baggage handlers who were gang members doing it.

So it would, or should not be surprising that now they find drugs coming in, with the obvious expectation that the gang handlers at O'Hare would retieve it.

See this post from last year regarding gang activity at LAX, SEATAC, etc. involving gang members working under contract fopr Alaska Airlines


http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?nam...wtopic&t=17986

That was it Legal, thanks.