{"id":29591,"date":"2017-02-23T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29591"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:52:53","slug":"former-lax-baggage-handler-arrested-for-nationwide-drug-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29591","title":{"rendered":"Former LAX Baggage Handler Arrested for Nationwide Drug Dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22125 alignright gr-progress\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/swissport-loading.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A former baggage handler employed at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Tuesday for smuggling cocaine and using employee credentials to breach airport security, officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alberto H. Botello, 23, of South Gate, was arrested Tuesday evening without incident by law enforcement officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Botello is charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and to distribute cocaine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His co-defendants, Adrian Ponce, 28, and Alberto Preciado Gutierrez, 27, both of South Gate, were also former baggage handlers and were arrested by law enforcement in the Spring of 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His co-defendants, Adrian Ponce, 28, and Alberto Preciado Gutierrez, 27, both of South Gate, were also former baggage handlers and were arrested by law enforcement in the Spring of 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Botello made his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23381 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Columbia-South-Carolina-federal-Courtroom-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Columbia-South-Carolina-federal-Courtroom-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Columbia-South-Carolina-federal-Courtroom.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to court documents, Ponce, Preciado Gutierrez, and Botello facilitated the ability of third-party couriers to use commercial airlines to smuggle kilogram \u201csamples\u201d of cocaine from Los Angeles to drug customers on the East Coast, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the time of the conspiracy, Preciado Gutierrez was a supervisory baggage handler employed by Swissport International at LAX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the investigation, law enforcement seized a kilogram of cocaine in Preciado Gutierrez\u2019s possession on December 16, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">According to court documents, the seizure was made in a restroom in Terminal 3 at LAX, where Preciado Gutierrez was delivering the cocaine to a courier who was holding a boarding pass to travel on a JetBlue flight to New York only an hour later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After this incident, Preciado Gutierrez was terminated by Swissport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13046 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-274x173.jpg 274w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-308x192.jpg 308w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246-610x380.jpg 610w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/U.S.-Courthouse-Los-Angeles-e1435018436246.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to court documents, the seizure was made in a restroom in Terminal 3 at LAX, where Preciado Gutierrez was delivering the cocaine to a courier who was holding a boarding pass to travel on a JetBlue flight to New York only an hour later. After this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After this incident Preciado Gutierrez was terminated by Swissport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The following day law enforcement interviewed Ponce, who had been taken into custody while waiting for Preciado Gutierrez outside Terminal 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">According to court documents, Ponce gave a written statement in which he admitted that, \u201con multiple occasions,\u201d he and Preciado Gutierrez had used Preciado Gutierrez \u2019s supervisory status as an LAX employee to smuggle drugs to out-of-state drug customers by using third-party couriers who had booked flights from LAX to the East Coast. They were willing to take the drugs on a commercial flight in exchange for payment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They were willing to take the drugs on a commercial flight in exchange for payment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAirport employees, who by virtue of their jobs have special access to secured areas, play an important role in the security of air travelers and our national security,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker. \u201cInstead of protecting our security, these defendants are charged with abusing their special access for personal profit and exposing unsuspecting air travelers to nationwide drug trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In another statement given to law enforcement officials in 2016, Ponce allegedly admitted working with a large-scale drug supplier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He explained how couriers with travel document would pass through normal airport security and would be provided with kilogram quantities of cocaine by Preciado Gutierrez, who had used his employee credentials to bypass security screening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">According to court documents, Ponce told law enforcement that if East Coast customers liked the cocaine \u201csample,\u201d then large shipments \u2013 more than 100 kilograms \u2013 would be delivered by driving the narcotics across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ponce allegedly admitted actually driving trucks laden with drugs, also in exchange for payment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe national security threat posed by drug trafficking is multi-faceted, and we\u2019re aggressively targeting these sorts of security breaches at our nation\u2019s sea, land, and airports\u201d said DEA Special Agent in Charge Steve Comer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ponce previously worked at LAX for a baggage handling service that was recently acquired by Swissport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If convicted of the charged offenses, Ponce, Preciado Gutierrez, and Botello are facing up to 40 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LOS ANGELES A former baggage handler employed at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Tuesday for smuggling cocaine and using employee credentials to breach airport security, officials announced Thursday. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alberto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[1307,1773],"class_list":["post-29591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-main-slider","category-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-cocaine","tag-lax"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former LAX Baggage Handler Arrested for Nationwide Drug Dealing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former baggage handler employed at Los 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