A recent spate of airport security breaches, with airline or airport employees allegedly involved in smuggling drugs or illegal immigrants, have federal officials concerned. Federal authorities warn crimes by airport workers are not isolated.
A recent spate of airport security breaches, with airline or airport employees allegedly involved in smuggling drugs or illegal immigrants, have federal officials concerned. Federal authorities warn crimes by airport workers are not isolated.
Just last week at Miami International Airport, eight cargo workers were charged with being part of a conspiracy that smuggled a half ton of cocaine and heroin from Central and South America to U.S. streets on scores of flights.
"They knew how to exploit that system because they worked there," said Anthony Mangione, Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations office in Miami. "The person within the system knows the strengths of it and knows the weaknesses and like anything else, will target those weaknesses."
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