They were allegedly smuggling suitcases loaded with cocaine.
New York: US agents have arrested 21 persons, nine of them American Airlines employees for allegedly smuggling suitcases loaded with cocaine.
The accused are charged with a conspiracy to distribute more than 9,000 kg of the drug in American Airlines commercial flights.
The indictment alleges that the ringleader - American Airlines employee Wilfredo Rodriguez-Rosado - had for 10 years recruited and organised a group of his airline colleagues.
The peddlers were nabbed on flights from Puerto Rico to the US.
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