"U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced charges against two airline employees for the their role in a drug smuggling scheme. The charges stem from an investigation led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) Office of Homeland Security Investigations ( HSI ).
A superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn was unsealed today charging former American Airlines baggage handler Victor Bourne and former American Airlines dispatching crew chief Miguel Bozza with drug trafficking and related charges. The superseding indictment also charges Maria Alleyne, the mother of Victor Bourne, with structuring the purchase of money orders to avoid financial reporting requirements.
The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch and James T. Hayes, Jr., special agent in charge of ICE HSI in New York.
Assistance for the investigation was provided by the Internal Revenue Service, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
According to the indictment and other court filings, between 2000 and 2009, Victor Bourne, a Barbadian national, was the leader of a drug trafficking organization ( the 'Bourne Organization' ) that relied on corrupt employees of commercial airlines, including American Airlines, at domestic and international ports of entry to smuggle drugs into the United States and throughout the Caribbean. As part of its criminal activity, the Bourne Organization allegedly arranged for cocaine to be stowed aboard American Airlines flights leaving the Caribbean for John F. Kennedy International Airport."
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