Ex-TSA officer charged with trying to smuggle meth after LAX sting operations
LA TimesA bag containing fake methamphetamine was used in a sting operation at Los Angeles International Airport by federal agents targeting a Transportation Security Administration officer suspected of helping to smuggle drugs through the airport. A former Transportation Security Administration officer was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of attempting to distribute methamphetamine after sting operations at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. In two incidents in 2020, Michael Williams of Hawthorne received fake methamphetamine from an informant who was working with the federal government and agreed to deliver the packages to an accomplice in a restroom on the secure side of the LAX terminal, prosecutors said. In the August 2020 undercover operation, the fake methamphetamine was in a brown Chipotle bag that Williams laid on the floor in the men’s restroom at LAX, prosecutors said.
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