BOSTON – Five airline employees have been charged in a sting operation with using their security clearances to secretly smuggle more than $400,000 in cash through Boston's Logan Airport.
Four ground operations crew members of JetBlue Airways and one Delta Air Lines customer service ramp agent were arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the Transportation Security Administration.
Federal prosecutors said they used their security clearance to circumvent TSA checkpoints and smuggle cash to secure areas such as passenger departure gates. Prosecutors say each received a payment from a cooperating witness who posed as a member of a drug-trafficking organization.
The men were due to appear in court late Thursday. The names of their lawyers could not immediately be determined.
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