JetBlue flight attendant bolted from random search, leaving behind 70 lbs of Cocaine in carry-on.

[Arkain2K]

A $500,000 bond was set Thursday for a JetBlue Airways flight attendant who fled Los Angeles International Airport after security officials pulled her aside for a random baggage search and later allegedly found nearly 70 pounds of cocaine in her carry-on luggage.

Marsha Gay Reynolds, 31, a former Jamaican beauty queen and college track-and-field athlete, was granted bond by a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, New York, but remains in custody pending a further hearing Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors may appeal the decision and argue that Reynolds, a resident of Queens, should stay behind bars pending trial.

Reynolds, who was second runner-up in the 2008 Miss Jamaica pageant, allegedly kicked off her Gucci high heels as she ran from LAX last Friday night.

She surrendered to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in New York on Wednesday, the same day she was charged in Los Angeles with possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

The drug discovery was made Friday afternoon in Terminal Four by a Transportation Security Administration security officer who was screening the airline attendant’s carry-on bags as part of a random search, according to an FBI affidavit.

As the TSA officer led Reynolds to a location to be searched, she made a cell phone call — speaking in what sounded like a foreign language — then kicked off her shoes and ran from the terminal down the up escalator, the affidavit alleges.

The agent didn’t pursue Reynolds because his primary concern was the bags she was carrying, authorities said. Airport police conducted a search for Reynolds but couldn’t find her.

Authorities said Reynolds’ abandoned luggage was found to contain 11 individually wrapped packages — labeled “Big Ranch” — that were taken to the Los Angeles police’s Forensic Science Division, where the contents tested positive for cocaine.

In the wake of the foiled drug-smuggling attempt, Los Angeles Airport Police Officers Association President Marshall McClain called for 100 percent screening of all passengers and employees at LAX.

“Flight attendants and other crew members are not normally subjected to searches, but this is a perfect example of why Los Angeles airports need 100 percent screening of all passengers and airport employees” McClain said.

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[Arkain2K]

 

[KILL KILL]

Sounds like she'd be a fun date.

 

[dontsnitch]

She's gonna roll over on some folk. No chance she's any kind of mastermind.

 

[Quipling]

a former Jamaican beauty queen and college track-and-field athlete,

The agent didn’t pursue Reynolds because his primary concern was the bags she was carrying, authorities said

His primary concern was that she was really fucking fast, I bet.

 

[Misfit23]

I can't believe flights attendants don't always get searched. Haven't the TSA seen the movie Blow?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

would

 

[Rod1]

She is pretty.

 

[7437]

ditched the heels to run faster. thats quick thinking.

 

[Metusalemi]

Lol at the dog. Looks so serious.

 

[tehend]

His primary concern was that she was really fucking fast, I bet.

Pretty much this.

Edit: Would

 

[Abezal]

I can't believe flights attendants don't always get searched. Haven't the TSA seen the movie Blow?

lmao

Less the 1/5 flying into the US actually get checked (airline employees), mind you its at random but they are so incompetent i got in with a knife in my beg. The beg was xraydand i was swabbed.

I worked out legit timings where the give you the green and let you by while certain times you are 50/50 on getting a red and being checked. Honestly if inclined to plant something on a us flight, its rather fucking easy as hell for an employee to smuggle shit in.

Most busted at the airport smuggling are the jungle workers bring in hard drugs, hardly makes the news. Rare is it airline peeps.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

I wanna do coke off her ass.

 

[skombolis]

I can't believe flights attendants don't always get searched. Haven't the TSA seen the movie Blow?

I'd guess they normally don't even random check attendants. It still would be too risky for a courier with something to lose. But she was wearing Gucci for starters.

The obvious question is why would there be such a blatant way to bypass security if there was really a unified war on drugs? People getting paid off or threatened is one thing, but we are talking policy here. They intentionally just wave through hundreds of workers a day. The government is so shady.

 

[Luger]

She's from Jamaica.
It is obvious that weed is to be blamed.
That freaking gateway drunk, when will this madness stop?

 

[ILLogic]

 

[ShinkanPo]

I say planted.

 

[ProBoxingInsidr]

the best part is that all those flight attendants will no longer be ablet to take full sized shampoo bottles and toothpaste with them on the plane. we can all feel safer now

 

[sickc0d3r]

She too pretty to go to jail, and probably has some quality coke. Release her into my custody Good Will Hunting style.

 

[Arkain2K]

California judge denies bail for flight attendant in drug case

A federal judge in California on Friday effectively overruled a Brooklyn magistrate and ordered a flight attendant held without bail on charges that she dumped a bag of cocaine and fled authorities at Los Angeles International Airport.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte in Los Angeles came a day after the federal magistrate in the New York City borough of Brooklyn set bail at $500,000 for her release.

Flight attendant Marsha Reynolds, 31, must now remain in custody until she is transported to California to face the charges. Her next court hearing in Los Angeles is set for April 7.

Reynolds, a JetBlue Airways Corp employee and a former college sprinter who was raised in the borough of Queens, is charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

She is accused of dropping a bag containing almost 70 pounds (32 kg) of cocaine when she was randomly selected for screening at the Los Angeles airport last Friday, taking off her shoes and dashing away. She later turned herself in to authorities in New York.

The magistrate in Brooklyn had granted her release on a $500,000 bond but put the order on hold until Friday to allow the judge in California, where she would face trial, to weigh in.

On Friday Judge Birotte ordered her "to remain in custody and await transport by the United States Marshal to the Central District of California."


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