![]() Taken into a private room for screening, White removed what is described as “a large mass wrapped around her abdomen” - but she insisted that it was “not what you think.” The machine quickly recognized something rigged to her mid-section. Flight crews tend to be pre-approved for more lenient airport security. Once inside, as per the complaint, White began shaking. She did not have prescriptions, she would come back with boxes and sell here.”Īs recounted in the United States District Court complaint, White appeared hesitant to enter the the “advanced imaging technology machine” - the full-body scanner that travelers step into for low-energy X-ray. The former flight attendant source recalled an industry colleague who “used to go to Mexico and bring back Ritalin, Xanax and Adderall. The random screenings, he pointed out, “are an uncommon occurrence.” “I would think this is quite common but they don’t get caught frequently.” Former beauty queen Marsha Gay Reynolds was busted attempting to transport nearly 70 pounds of cocaine - almost $2 million worth - while working as a flight attendant for JetBlue. “It stands to reason that this is commonly done,” attorney Dennis Ring, who represented convicted flight attendant Marsha Gay Reynolds, told The Post. Paid off by drug dealers, some of them turn their privilege into a side hustle: acting as convenient mules to move contraband around the United States. Like the title character of the Quentin Tarantino movie “ Jackie Brown,” crooked flight attendants find frequent travel plus lax security a tempting combination. Sources told The Post that flight attendants sometimes take side-hustle gigs as drug mules, because their access to cross-country travel and more lenient security screenings make them an easy target for drug dealers. White is just the latest flight attendant to use what the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California called “privileges as a flight attendant” as a tool for smuggling drugs. She’s now awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to one account of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. Mesa Airlines flight attendant Terese White recently pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl after attempting to go through security with drugs strapped to her. Unfortunately for White, this was the day she was selected. “But, sometimes, you get a ‘random.’ That’s when you are randomly chosen to go through the security that everybody else goes through.” You scan the card, show your company ID and driver’s license and walk right through,” a former Mesa Airlines flight attendant told The Post. As is the habit of flight attendants, according to her plea agreement, White, a Dallas resident, “attempted to utilize the Known Crew Member queue” - a TSA security line that lets airline employees sail through with reduced screening. Between flights, she exited the SoCal airport and returned later that day to go from San Diego to Boston. Last October, White was a Mesa Airlines flight attendant traveling from Dallas to San Diego. Terese White, 41, was meant to fly to Boston. ![]() Shocking moment angry passenger repeatedly punches flight attendant Women ‘forced’ by American Airlines to change clothes at gate I’m a flight attendant - here’s why I avoid hotel coffee makers Passenger pleads guilty to assaulting flight attendant
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