Flight Attendants Charged In $8 Million Drug Money Scheme

Completely victimless crimes. Drugs should be legal in the first place. Drug use is a health problem. It shouldn’t have anything to do with the law. The fact Americans misunderstand this is completely insane. We imprison so many harmless people for drug “offenses” when we should be giving them healthcare and economic opportunities.

Money should move freely. I’m tired of government scrutiny of what I’m doing with my money. The government needs tax revenue I understand, my wife and I pay $10 million a year in taxes. When I’m moving money at airports, the government should mind their own business. If you believe my money was illegally procured, the time to investigate that was during the procurement, not during transport. And as I said above, drug trades should be legal.

Not for or against KCM but drug and money smuggling have been going on long before KCM and TSA. Just look at the ammunition incidents in Turks and Caicos. Not confident that even if these 4 flight attendants would have been caught if they went through traditional security.

Yes legalize drugs brilliant!! More dead children teens & adults!! Just perfect. What a good idea!!! More dead people!

They not only they care if money was illegally procured, they also care if you use that money to fund war hunger factions like Hamas, Netanyahu, Zelenskyy, or Putin.

So was it Delta or JetBlue or both?

@ Eskimo -- We know at least two were Delta flight attendants. I haven't been able to figure out which airline the other two worked for, but I'd guess it's JetBlue, based on the route network.

Those two were smuggling money from the premium drugs

Ofc the DEI hire Biglaw is in favor of drug use and criminals.

You can take the hoodrat out of the slums, but not the slum out of the hoodrats.

KCM should really be just for pilots, since they have complete access to the flight deck anyway and some are even armed under the FFDO program. Most pilots wouldn't risk their career and education doing silly stuff like this, whereas many FAs are not as well rounded or don't utilize critical thinking of the risk they take doing illegal things like this. (There are many great FAs still and I have respect for them and their job). FAs have limited flight deck access like when serving meals or pilot bathroom break, but other than that do not constantly control the aircraft. .

The bat signal for Tim Dunn may only light if the title includes “Delta”. A picture of a Delta plane alone might not do it.

If guns are legal why can’t drugs be

Drugs don’t kill people. People who use drugs kill themselves

Note the logic im trying to use here

Let’s ban alcohol also! And fatty foods! Let’s all decide what everyone else has to do and then lock them up if they don’t like it! And create more illegal things so that more people are attracted to gang life because of the money to be made from things being illegal and therefore higher priced despite being tax-free! Prohibition is always the answer, it’s never failed!!

Regarding KCM, it's irrelevant in this case. The job of the TSA isn't to look for cash being smuggled; their job is to look for threats to aviation security. Specifically seeking anything else out is probably a 4th amendment violation. So while KCM may have aided them to a degree, TSA shouldn't specifically be looking for cash.

I think the bigger risk is someone (terrorist) blackmailing/threatening a crew member to actually bring something more nefarious onto the plane or airport

Exactly.

KCM was created because TSA were engaging in idiocy like forcing pilots to either go through dangerous backscatter naked machines or be felt up, which pilots started protesting and almost led to strikes. They literally have 500 mph metal tubes full of fuel at their disposal and a bunch of them are even allowed to carry guns. Further, lines already take FAR too long due to TSA theater - adding crew to them would be worse. KCM ultimately has never endangered a flight, which is the entire purpose of the program.

Get real!
If you do indeed pay that amount of taxes you should have no issue doing bank transfers, the civilized way to transport funds.

DHS was in a tough spot politically after 9/11. Officials are well aware of the idiocy of idiotic policies -- but the majority of American citizens are imbeciles susceptible to fearmongers. DHS had to crank up the amount of visible and intrusive security to prevent a revolt of American idiots.

To the credit of DHS, many of these policies have been rolled back. TSA PreCheck was a game changer. Machine-reading IDs via CAT (credential authentication technology), obviating the presentation of a boarding pass, was a game changer. Facial recognition/digital ID is being tested and could also be a game changer.

In 10 years the ID verification step of TSA will operate in the background. You'll walk right up to a conveyer belt for your bags and if there's a problem, like you're on the no-fly list or you don't actually have a ticketed flight, you will be pulled aside.

CT instead of X-ray baggage scanners in some scanning lanes mean even non-PreCheck passengers don't have to remove anything from bags. The ANALOGIC machines are slow but I am confident they will be fixed or replaced with something faster.

The only remaining bottleneck is having to take off your jacket, having to remove your cell phone - these should be fixable with future body scanning tech.

Eventually all screening will be like what JSX currently does, you just walk through.

@Make it make sense

Your name is suggesting what exactly you've gotta do. You think that killing others and killing themselves are the same thing?

As crew myself, I don't ever use KCM because of the VERY high random selection for security screening...which then processes thru the same security as everyone else so I'm not sure KCM is the culprit (although I'm sure at times the individuals got lucky and got through there on occasion). However, I'm not sure TSA is screening for drugs but rather looking for weapons and other items that can be a threat to the security of an aircraft.

Until some politician looking for victim points will claim this will make flying more dangerous and all the hard working TSA agents will lose their job. And the sheep will completely agree. Remember this isn't private enterprise.

So much for ethics and integrity.
The key point is they knowingly were involved.

+1

Once at the IND airport a crew member flashing her KCM credentials to skip the normal TSA Pre line while the line for crew members was active and manned and no crew members were going through. She could have easily used that line and not jumped ahead.