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30 pounds of cocaine found on American Airlines plane brought to Tulsa for maintenance
An American Airlines employee at Tulsa International Airport was conducting maintenance Sunday afternoon on a Boeing 757 and found one of seven bricks of the drug, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Casey Roebuck said. (www.tulsaworld.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Did it have TRUMP printed across the side
After the 30 pounds of cocaine were discovered, the workers handed over all 28 pounds to the Sheriff's Office. The 25 pounds will remain in the evidence room until the perpetrator(s) are caught, at which point the 22 pounds will be transported to the courthouse.
Your numbers are off. Of the 30#, 26# was coke, 4# was insulation. Other than that, your numbers on shrinkage are might be a little low. The 4# of insulation will make it to the street for sale. As Mr. Behling noted elsewhere 10 of the 7 pkgs started the journey.
The clever comments here are entertaining. You all act like, “oh, what a surprise”. While anyone who is “flightaware” knows full well AA, delta, united, etc. are the biggest mules, and this goes on every day for the last thirty years.
Am I a pilot? no. Then why am I such a know-it-all about this subject?
For thirty years I owned a liquor store in south tulsa, frequented by AA employees of all “stripes”. I heard things. According to a guy, whose name may or may not be, Jeff, the first time contraband was detected being transferred in this manner, the employee in the SA country was terminated. A couple weeks later, after a meeting, that may or may not have occurred, with “some people” AA was informed if they didn’t look the other way, planes would inexplicably start falling out of the sky. In a decision made to not secede their entire SA operation, they decided to re-instate the previously terminated employee and the skies remained friendly. Mixed metaphor I know.
So now, day in day out, on every flight out of SA guess what happens? Prior to 9/11 it was a bag thrown on the plane at the last minute. If I were gonna guess, the ground crew messed up. Couldn’t get all the product on board and just “stuck” it where they could. The poor sap at tulsa maintenance who was not in the loop, and found this, will more than likely shoot himself in the back of the head twice. Then write a two page suicide note.
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Am I a pilot? no. Then why am I such a know-it-all about this subject?
For thirty years I owned a liquor store in south tulsa, frequented by AA employees of all “stripes”. I heard things. According to a guy, whose name may or may not be, Jeff, the first time contraband was detected being transferred in this manner, the employee in the SA country was terminated. A couple weeks later, after a meeting, that may or may not have occurred, with “some people” AA was informed if they didn’t look the other way, planes would inexplicably start falling out of the sky. In a decision made to not secede their entire SA operation, they decided to re-instate the previously terminated employee and the skies remained friendly. Mixed metaphor I know.
So now, day in day out, on every flight out of SA guess what happens? Prior to 9/11 it was a bag thrown on the plane at the last minute. If I were gonna guess, the ground crew messed up. Couldn’t get all the product on board and just “stuck” it where they could. The poor sap at tulsa maintenance who was not in the loop, and found this, will more than likely shoot himself in the back of the head twice. Then write a two page suicide note.
I may or may not have made this posting.
Paul - These are the same tactics the Cosa Nostra, the L'onorata Societa, the Camorra and the Sacra Corona Unita use - and all of these groups will be operating on a large scale in this "business" in SA.
The staggering sums of money involved (the drug industry is reputed to account for 10% of Italys GDP), means people can be bought at the highest level- and it would not surprise me one iota, that the higher levels of law enforcement in DEA are being paid off, and possibly even senior management in AA is being bought off, as well.
All of the above global crime groups run very tight businesses, and they ensure that those businesses continue to run tightly and smoothly, using any form or style of inducement as needed.
Laws, morals and ethics, are seen as impediments to the business operations of these people.
The solution to the drug problem is simple.
Western medical chemical companies should produce all the known drugs, very cheaply, in a guaranteed pure form, with advice on use attached.
The drug-dealing industry would disappear overnight, and drug use would decline.
However, that does not suit the massive "industry" of lawyers, judges, police, DEA, correction institutions, etc etc, who would see their workload and income greatly diminished.
Neither does it suit those who are on the receiving end of kickbacks that allow the drug-dealing industry to flourish, despite Govts throwing hundreds of billions at it annually.
The staggering sums of money involved (the drug industry is reputed to account for 10% of Italys GDP), means people can be bought at the highest level- and it would not surprise me one iota, that the higher levels of law enforcement in DEA are being paid off, and possibly even senior management in AA is being bought off, as well.
All of the above global crime groups run very tight businesses, and they ensure that those businesses continue to run tightly and smoothly, using any form or style of inducement as needed.
Laws, morals and ethics, are seen as impediments to the business operations of these people.
The solution to the drug problem is simple.
Western medical chemical companies should produce all the known drugs, very cheaply, in a guaranteed pure form, with advice on use attached.
The drug-dealing industry would disappear overnight, and drug use would decline.
However, that does not suit the massive "industry" of lawyers, judges, police, DEA, correction institutions, etc etc, who would see their workload and income greatly diminished.
Neither does it suit those who are on the receiving end of kickbacks that allow the drug-dealing industry to flourish, despite Govts throwing hundreds of billions at it annually.
Prohibition proves you wrong. ð
Since our current situation is analogous to prohibition, I disagree. One problem with Ron Nash's solution is that the raw materials and precursors for the 'medications' would still, in large part, come from locations currently controlled by the cartels and their analogues. I could see where they would shift from providing 'product' to 'components'; that would reduce their profit margins considerably but not completely eliminate them.
Ok, that was supposed to be a ;P