INVESTIGATORS ARE TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT HOW HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF
COCAINE ENDED UP IN AN AMERICAN
AIRLINES PLANE.
HANK TESTER REPORTS.
Reporter: $200,000 WORTH OF OAK
OF -- OF COCAINE LAID OUT ON
THE HOOD OF A SHERIFF'S
DEPUTIES SQUAD CAR.
IT HAS A MIAMI CONNECTION.
AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT
CAME OUT OF BOGOTA, GOT TO
MIAMI, WAS SENT TO TULSA FOR
MAINTENANCE.
THAT'S WHERE A TECHNICIAN FOUND
THE COCAINE IN THE ELECTRONICS
BAY. MY DEPUTIES RECEIVED A
CALL SAYING THAT THE
MAINTENANCE INDIVIDUALS WORKING
ON THE PLANE FOUND WHAT THEY
THOUGHT WAS COCAINE.
THE PLANE ACTUALLY CAME FROM
BOGOTA, LANDED IN MIAMI, GOT
PICKED UP ON THE COMPUTER
SYSTEM FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE.
USUALLY THAT HAPPENS IN MIAMI.
THEY WERE JUST OVERLOADED.
Reporter: A SPOKESMAN SAID
AMERICAN AIRLINES IS WORKING
WITH THE DEA AND FEDERAL
AGENCIES WHICH ARE TRYING TO
DETERMINE HOW THE COCAINE MADE
ITS WAY ONTO THE AIRPLANE.
AMERICAN AIRLINES IS PROBABLY
GOING TO WORK WITH THE DA IN
MIAMI TO TRACK DOWN WHO PUT IT
THERE. Reporter: THIS IS
NOTHING NEW.
BACK IN DECEMBER 2015, AMERICAN
AIRLINES FLIGHT FROM BOGOTA
LANDS IN MIAMI, NEEDS
MAINTENANCE, WINDS UP IN TULSA.
No comments:
Post a Comment