NewsWhore
10-19-2007, 04:20 PM
More details of the drug ring busted earlier this week at New York's JFK airport have been released as the US v. Henry Polanco (07-M-1115 case) is heard at the US District Court of the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn). Listin Diario is reporting that two people, identified as DS-1 and M-1, were supplying the drug ring, which was allegedly run by Henry Polanco, with the necessary drugs and that M-1 was providing at least 10 kilos of heroin and cocaine per week.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Meredith Leung explained that the airport workers had "virtually unfettered and unsupervised" access to the cargo holds of planes, where the drugs were stored during flights, as reported in the Queens Courier. "Because they are so effective, these types of conspiracies often entrust the airline employees with kilogram quantities of narcotics, much larger than that which is typically brought into the United States by a single narcotics courier," said Leung in a filed affidavit.
Ten JFK Airport baggage handlers were among 18 arrested on Tuesday, October 16 for allegedly smuggling heroin and cocaine into New York City. Jorge Espinal, a cargo supervisor for Delta Air Lines, allegedly oversaw the diversion of shipments into so-called "safe areas" where drug-sniffing dogs and inspectors would not see them.
Leung said some workers whose jobs gave them access to arriving flights removed the drug-filled bags from the jets' cargo hold and walked off with them, as reported in the NY Daily News.
Police say the ringleader would coordinate shipments with distributors in the Dominican Republic.
A two-year investigation utilized phone call interceptions in which the defendants allegedly referred to the drugs as "chickens and ducks."
According to the NY Daily News, the feds learned of the scheme two years ago, after a large amount of cocaine and heroin was intercepted in the cargo hold of a Delta flight at the airport. Since then, agents have seized four additional caches aboard Delta flights.
Seven defendants work for Delta; one for American Airlines; one for Aramark, an airport maintenance company, and another for JFK-TNT courier service.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Meredith Leung explained that the airport workers had "virtually unfettered and unsupervised" access to the cargo holds of planes, where the drugs were stored during flights, as reported in the Queens Courier. "Because they are so effective, these types of conspiracies often entrust the airline employees with kilogram quantities of narcotics, much larger than that which is typically brought into the United States by a single narcotics courier," said Leung in a filed affidavit.
Ten JFK Airport baggage handlers were among 18 arrested on Tuesday, October 16 for allegedly smuggling heroin and cocaine into New York City. Jorge Espinal, a cargo supervisor for Delta Air Lines, allegedly oversaw the diversion of shipments into so-called "safe areas" where drug-sniffing dogs and inspectors would not see them.
Leung said some workers whose jobs gave them access to arriving flights removed the drug-filled bags from the jets' cargo hold and walked off with them, as reported in the NY Daily News.
Police say the ringleader would coordinate shipments with distributors in the Dominican Republic.
A two-year investigation utilized phone call interceptions in which the defendants allegedly referred to the drugs as "chickens and ducks."
According to the NY Daily News, the feds learned of the scheme two years ago, after a large amount of cocaine and heroin was intercepted in the cargo hold of a Delta flight at the airport. Since then, agents have seized four additional caches aboard Delta flights.
Seven defendants work for Delta; one for American Airlines; one for Aramark, an airport maintenance company, and another for JFK-TNT courier service.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)