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CBS News
30-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
54 pounds of marijuana found in Massachusetts woman's luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport
A Massachusetts woman was caught with more than 50 pounds of marijuana in her luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday. While inspecting passenger baggage being loaded onto a London-bound flight on Saturday, officers said they found several vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana inside two suitcases. Officers learned the luggage belonged to 30-year-old Jetta Monet Corbett of Brockton, Massachusetts, who was detained at the departure gate. Officers intercept 54 pounds of UK-bound marijuana During a secondary examination, Customs and Border Protection said officers found a total of 49 vacuum-sealed packages of a substance that field tested positive for marijuana. Authorities said the marijuana weighed over 54 pounds and had a street value of about $240,000. Depending on how strong the drug was, Customs and Border Protection said the shipment could have fetched two to three times more if Corbett had made it to Europe. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Customs and Border Protection turned the marijuana and Corbett over to the Allegheny County police, who arrested her. She's charged with one felony count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance. Criminals are using flights to move weed, CBP says Bulk marijuana seizures at Pittsburgh International Airport are rare, but Customs and Border Protection said officers have been seeing a trend of "transnational criminal organizations" trying to move marijuana through passenger baggage and express air delivery to Europe and Africa, where it can generate huge profits. "Anyone considering making a quick buck by carrying bulk marijuana loads for drug trafficking organizations should realize that the consequences you face can be severe when Customs and Border Protection officers catch you," said James Hindes, Customs and Border Protection's acting port director for the Port of Pittsburgh. "One way that law enforcement agencies can combat transnational criminal organizations is to hit them hard in the wallet, so CBP will continue to seize these marijuana loads when we encounter them and deprive criminals of this illicit revenue."
CBS News
30-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Over 50 pounds of marijuana found in Massachusetts woman's luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport
A Massachusetts woman was caught with over 50 pounds of marijuana in her luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday. While inspecting passenger baggage being loaded onto a London-bound flight on Saturday, officers said they found several vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana inside two suitcases. Officers learned the luggage belonged to 30-year-old Jetta Monet Corbett of Brockton, Massachusetts, who was detained at the departure gate. Officers intercept 54 pounds of UK-bound marijuana During a secondary examination, Customs and Border Protection said officers found a total of 49 vacuum-sealed packages of a substance that field tested positive for marijuana. Authorities said the marijuana weighed over 54 pounds and had a street value of about $240,000. Depending on how strong the drug was, Customs and Border Protection said the shipment could have fetched two to three times more if Corbett had made it to Europe. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Customs and Border Protection turned the marijuana and Corbett over to the Allegheny County police, who arrested her. She's charged with one felony count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance. Criminals are using flights to move weed, CBP says Bulk marijuana seizures at Pittsburgh International Airport are rare, but Customs and Border Protection said officers have been seeing a trend of "transnational criminal organizations" trying to move marijuana through passenger baggage and express air delivery to Europe and Africa, where it can generate huge profits. "Anyone considering making a quick buck by carrying bulk marijuana loads for drug trafficking organizations should realize that the consequences you face can be severe when Customs and Border Protection officers catch you," said James Hindes, Customs and Border Protection's acting port director for the Port of Pittsburgh. "One way that law enforcement agencies can combat transnational criminal organizations is to hit them hard in the wallet, so CBP will continue to seize these marijuana loads when we encounter them and deprive criminals of this illicit revenue."
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Bizarre video shows Karen nag police over FaceTime as drunk sister is arrested for hijacking airport intercom
Bizarre police bodycam footage captured the moment the sister of a woman being arrested by airport security berated officers and called them a 'little b****' in a shocking episode. The arrest unfolded November 2, 2024, when airport police were called to reports of an intoxicated woman attempting to breach the boarding doors and making drunken unauthorized announcements over the intercom. She called her sister on FaceTime as officers placed her in handcuffs, with the sister at one point ordering the cops: 'Hey you! Cop, pick up the phone so I can yell at you.' The arrested woman, who has not been identified, was seen still clutching the intercom when police arrived before she refused to answer questions about what she was doing. After barking at an officer for telling her to put her phone away, the drunk passenger got on the phone to her sister before they could place her in handcuffs. As she was taken to the ground, a cop picked up the phone to hang it up, but after the sister got a look at him she told him: 'You look like a little b****.' Slurring her words and attempting to wriggle out of the officer's grasp, the arrested woman continued: 'I haven't done anything... I'm not, I won't offence.' Her dog began barking and growling at airport staff and the cops during her arrest, as she yelled at the dog to 'heel, heel' throughout the chaotic scenes. 'Can you hang up that phone?' one of the officers asks, after almost three minutes of the sister berating the cops in the background of the arrest. 'No, that's my sister, you're not hanging up the phone,' she said back. When the cop picked up the phone to hang it up, the sister saw him through FaceTime and said: 'You look like a little b****.' 'What the hell, this is so crazy,' the arrested woman interjected. When she tells an officer the situation is 'nuts', he puts her in her place as he tells her: 'Well, you shouldn't drink so much and learn to be an adult.' She told the officers she had been at the airport since 2pm, with the bodycam showing the arrest took place after 6:30pm, but insisted she 'hadn't had anything to eat or drink.' 'So you had a lot of alcohol before you came to the airport?' the officer asks. Once her sister was no longer on the FaceTime call, the woman turned her attention back to her dog, and when an officer put his hand out she snapped: 'Don't you touch her.' 'She's not going to jail with you,' a female officer tells her, to which she responds: 'I'm not going to jail.' 'For what?' she asked, and when told it was for public intoxication, she said: 'I'm not even intoxicated.' Growing more panicked, the woman repeatedly insisted she 'knows my rights', and seemed bewildered by not being allowed to call her attorney as she was being handcuffed. 'I need these off,' she said of her handcuffs. The bizarre arrest ends as an airport staffer explained to the cops that the woman made it to boarding her flight, before agents realized she 'didn't know where she was' and didn't have the correct boarding pass with her. Later in the bodycam, the woman appeared stunned to learn that she was being booked in jail, leading an officer to sternly tell her: 'We already explained that to you.' According to Body Cam Edition, the woman faced charges of public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She was reunited with her dog the next morning.
