AIR WATCH – JUDGEMENTS & ARRESTS

23 Jun 2011

26 APRIL       BANGKOK

Mozawi Mazum, 27, was arrested on arrival off a Mahan Air flight from Tehran for drug smuggling after customs officials found crystal methamphetamine worth about 1.5 million Thai baht in packages in his stomach. Transmission X-ray revealed 56 packages of the drug, weighing a total 430g.
3 MAY           MIAMI

Orville Braham, 38, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for the transport of explosive and hazardous materials through Miami Airport in December 2010. At the time, he was travelling from Boston to Jamaica with around 1,700 bullet primers concealed in the lining of his luggage.

5 MAY           HANOI

Nguyen Bang Viet, 37, a former flight attendant with Vietnam Airlines Corp, was charged with making a bomb threat by sending text messages to the mobile phone of the chief attendant on a flight preparing to leave Vietnam for Cambodia in October 2010.

9 MAY           VANCOUVER

Two security screeners and a third man were arrested on drug trafficking charges after one of the men was found with 14.77 kilograms of ecstasy in his backpack in an area past the security section of the U.S. departures area.

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