Posted on 12/27/2022 9:08:33 AM PST by Red Badger
A reminder that the exploding drug crisis in the United States is not being driven solely by drug traffickers on the border but also by average U.S. citizens too:
A Dallas flight attendant pleaded guilty to drug trafficking after she was caught smuggling fentanyltaped to her abdomen at San Diego International Airport.
Terese L White, 41, pleaded guilty in federal court, admitting she abused her privileges as a flight attendant to smuggle the deadly drug through Transportation Security Administration screenings.
The lady thought she could get away with it because she had special prerogatives as an airline worker. But she was wrong:
She attempted to skip a TSA screening using the Known Crewmember line, which speeds up screening for airline crew.
Despite waiting in that line she was selected for regular screening, which was when TSA officers discovered the concealed packages taped to her abdomen.
You can picture this lady's reaction after getting signaled out from the express line:
Give this lady credit, she really tried to worm her way out of it:
She initially told law enforcement that the package was 'not what you think,' claiming it was a weight loss device she received from a colleague.
Ahh, yes, the old "these drugs are a weight control regime!" That's what every competent drug smuggler tells the feds when they bust him with a bunch of pills.
Fentanyl trafficking should be charged as attempted murder and punished accordingly. There is no other purpose for Fentanyl other than death.
She didn’t lie. Fentanyl will make you lose lots of weight once you are dead.
“There is no other purpose for Fentanyl other than death.”
Yet, that’s what the anesthesiologist gave me for my colonoscopy.
As an airline employee, you would think she would be wanting Speed.
There doesn’t appear to be a photo at the source thus no way to accurately determine guilt or innocence. Also they did not disclose which airline she worked for which would have helped ascertain the guilt or innocence as if she was a flight attendant for American Airlines that would surely seal her guilt
Gee. There must be some room here for a wrongful termination lawsuit!
Agreed.
When I was growing up, dealers didn’t want their customers dying…
Exactly.
Yes, that’s what street dealers are doing with it…
You know damn well what he meant.
Yeah…..
Sure…..
It could kill 600,000 people.
But she got some cash for it.
She could care less if 600,000 people die.
That’s why we have prisons.
To make people like her care about their actions.
"Outside of direct administration and use by trained medical personnel within the confines of legal usage, there is no other purpose for Fentanyl other than an illegal recreational high or death."
“Mules” typically don’t deal retail with users. They are transport. Her “customer” deals with that aspect.
Of course I know what he meant. There’s obviously a huge difference between street dealers selling illegal drugs and anesthesiologists administering legal anesthetics to patients.
But his statement was wrong and needed clarification.
So charge her with some crime involving a weapon of mass destruction. Then give her the death penalty.
Yup. Saw some listed on the bill for mrs. rktman’s gall bladder surgery and my carotid surgery.
If she was not extremely in debt and needed what the smugglers were paying her, then a mere immoral attitude alone was her sole motivation.
Well....actually you are wrong. Fentanyl is used in Hospitals....very effectively.
Thanks. Wordy, but indeed precise.
I’d go with the simpler “Illegal drug dealers need to be executed.”
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