JetBlue Flight Attendant Arrested After Smuggling $3M in Drugs
On March 1st, 2016, Marsha Gay Reynolds — a nine-year JetBlue flight attendant based in Queens, New York — was stopped for random screening at LAX after arriving on a flight from JFK, and instead of submitting to inspection, kicked off her designer heels and sprinted barefoot through the terminal, abandoning two rolling suitcases containing sixty-eight pounds of cocaine valued at nearly three million dollars. The former Miss Jamaica 2008 first runner-up and NYU track athlete had been exploiting the Known Crew Member checkpoint — a TSA program allowing uniformed flight crews to bypass standard security screening — to smuggle cocaine from Los Angeles to New York on approximately ten successful trips since October 2015.
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