Christopher Andrew Harvey entered customs with a small roller bag and a backpack after arriving on a flight from Brussels on Saturday, according to a complaint filed by a Homeland Security Investigations agent. Screeners flagged Harvey for additional screening because he had “trouble answering simple questions regarding his trip,” the complaint said.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many people try to transport drugs through airports. I haven't flown in many years but I have been in Nashville airport picking up and dropping off friends and family, and the place was crawling with dope dogs every time I've been there. I wouldn't go into an airport with so much as a joint in my pocket nowadays.
Dopes shouldn't transport dope.
ReplyDeleteAbout five years ago, shortly after California legalized weed, I flew back to Missouri, where it remained illegal. I had about $600 of edibles and, because wine country, 4 bottles of fancy wine.
ReplyDeleteI checked the bag.
To my surprise, when I picked it up, not only was everything still there, there was one of those pleasant notes from the TSA informing me that the luggage had been inspected.
Your luggage was inspected in CA, so legal at the time. Traveling in reverse? Maybe a different outcome. Or not, TSA is more focused on finding explosives than drugs. Those machines at the checkpoint where they feed that piece of paper they wiped on your bags/hands? Only detect explosives or drugs, and not at the same time.
DeleteI travel by plane nearly every week. I have a roller bag that I use for travel and a separate tote bag for gun stuff. Never have the two together; if I drive and travel over night, gun stuff bag inside the truck, roller bag in the bed.
DeleteMost of those dogs sniff out explosives and food. There are very few drug dogs and when they have them it is usually for opioids. There are too many states that have fully legal pot or medicinal pot and it is not worth the hassle. The same goes for dogs in the Euro zone as well.
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