Two men on Delta flight caught with $380,000 worth of drug taped to their bodies.
Two airline passengers took the idea of “carry-on” to an extreme on their flight to New York. The men, on the same Delta flight, but traveling separately, were arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport last week after US Customs and Border Protection officers found a combined 23 pounds of cocaine under their clothes in separate searches, authorities said Wednesday. The combined street value of the cocaine was nearly $400,000, authorities said. According to US Customs and Border Protection, Ariel Garcia, a US citizen, and Elvin Montilla-Sosa, of the Dominican Republic, had both arrived in New York from Santo Domingo on April 19 when they were stopped for searches. In both cases, officers took the men to private search rooms. Charging documents said officers observed that Garcia was wearing baggy clothes, with “unusual bulging” around his calves. The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York is prosecuting the case on federal narcotics smuggling charges, officials said.<br/>
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Two men on Delta flight caught with $380,000 worth of drug taped to their bodies.
Two airline passengers took the idea of “carry-on” to an extreme on their flight to New York. The men, on the same Delta flight, but traveling separately, were arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport last week after US Customs and Border Protection officers found a combined 23 pounds of cocaine under their clothes in separate searches, authorities said Wednesday. The combined street value of the cocaine was nearly $400,000, authorities said. According to US Customs and Border Protection, Ariel Garcia, a US citizen, and Elvin Montilla-Sosa, of the Dominican Republic, had both arrived in New York from Santo Domingo on April 19 when they were stopped for searches. In both cases, officers took the men to private search rooms. Charging documents said officers observed that Garcia was wearing baggy clothes, with “unusual bulging” around his calves. The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York is prosecuting the case on federal narcotics smuggling charges, officials said.<br/>
