2 American pilots detained / 145 packages cocaine on plane

[satpak77]

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/lo...n-plane-US-pilots-nabbed-in-Dominican-airport

Drug laden plane, U.S. pilots nabbed in Dominican airport
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Antinarcotics (DNCD) U.S. Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Airport Security (CESA) agents seized a cargo airplane presumably from Puerto Rico with 145 packages of heroin and cocaine.
DNCD president Rolando Rosado said the antinarcotics and CESA agents who were in service at that time have been arrested for questioning, as well as the plane’s pilot and copilot, both American citizens.
Rosado, who personally supervised the confiscation, affirmed that all agents involved in the narcotics shipment will be charged.
According to a source quoted by elcaribe.com.do, 70,000 dollars found in the vehicle of one of the DNCD officials has presumably to do with the drugs.
The Short -360 airplane, which landed in Las Americas International Airport (AILA) at 3 p.m. from Puerto Rico and was scheduled to return at 8 p.m. It is registered to the shippers Air Cargo Carriers, laden with 145 drug packages hidden in the ceiling panels and the floorboards.
The Assistant prosecutors Jesus Arias and Henry Jiménez head the investigation, which seeks to determine if the drug was loaded in Las Americas.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

See? They're trying to kill On-Demand Cargo!!!

 

[aucfi]

Wow that's insane. My friend just left that company and would have been the CA on that flight. Hard to believe the pilots had no knowledge they were hauling that much blow.

 

[timeless]

I wonder how many tons of drugs pass through SDF and MEM every weeknight?

 

[OzBushWhacker]

Hard to believe the pilots had no knowledge they were hauling that much blow.

laden with 145 drug packages hidden in the ceiling panels and the floorboards.

Seems clear enough to me????