Unbelievable

[lamina]

MIAMI (AP)-United Airlines' director of security at Haiti's main airport was arrested by the U.S. government on charges she smuggled millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States aboard the airline's planes.


http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041018/w101822.html

I like this quote best-


"She is the latest Haitian official to be indicted in the United States on drug-smuggling charges. Others include the former national police director, the former national police commander, the former Haitian anti-drug chief, the former Port-au-Prince airport police commander and a Haitian senator. "

Do the Haitians have a problem


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[Notso Fantastic]

No- they like it sprinkled on their hamburgers. Guess she'll lose her staff travel.

[Old King Coal]

It's just a shame that this didn't happen in some of the less tolerant countries of the world, i.e. places where they know how to deal ( permanently :E ) with these drug dealing scum bags !

[Oilhead]

Someone has their wires crossed - this is another airline perhaps but certainly not United. United has no presence in Haiti at all - they have never flown there to my knowledge......:confused:

[Rollingthunder]

United Airlines security chief in Haiti charged with cocaine smuggling


October 15, 2004 - 19:40

MIAMI (AP) - American Airlines' director of security at Haiti's main airport was arrested by the U.S. government on charges she smuggled millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States aboard the airline's planes.

Stephanie Ambroise, who worked at Port-au-Prince airport, was arrested Thursday and charged with conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, officials said.

Ambroise appeared briefly Friday in Miami federal court and was ordered held until a Tuesday hearing.

She is the latest Haitian official to be indicted in the United States on drug-smuggling charges. Others include the former national police director, the former national police commander, the former Haitian anti-drug chief, the former Port-au-Prince airport police commander and a Haitian senator.

An indictment unsealed Friday said Ambroise arranged to have suitcases and other containers of cocaine put aboard planes bound for the United States.

In return, she received as much as $2,000 a kilogram and made millions for herself, prosecutors said.

The operation allegedly ran from 1999 to 2003. Investigators said Ambroise helped make two to three shipments a month.

American Airlines spokeswoman Martha Pantin said the company is co-operating but declined to discuss airline security procedures.

The U.S. public defender's office said it had not been assigned to represent Ambroise and she does not have a private lawyer.