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‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular Travele * 2
    #28513895 - 10/22/23 09:18 AM (3 months, 4 days ago)

Damn thats trashy, you are expected to know you have right to refuse in a place full of security, TSA, customs etc, a place where you have to produce ID all the time. And they gives these narcs airport ID, and for sure its racist profiling. I should be allowed to walk around with a briefcase of a million dollars if I want. There are legit non drug dealing people who just dont trust fucking banks Viral

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Catching many travelers off guard is a new practice being stealthily carried out by drug agents dressed as plainclothes passengers at the Atlanta airport who are randomly searching people they suspect are transporting drug money.

Atlanta News First Investigates reporters tailed Drug and Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force officers at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as they worked to track down potential drug mules making their way through various terminals. Atlanta Black Star also covered the claim of comedians Eric André and Clayton English, who alleged they were racially profiled by police and questioned about drugs at the airport on separate occasions in 2021 and 2020.

Unsuspecting travelers never realized these were federal drug agents until they were approached by one at their gates.


DEA task force officers blend in as regular travelers in plainclothes at the Atlanta airport, but they’re scouting out potential drug mules and conducting random searches on passengers at their boarding gates. (Photo: Twitter/Brendan Keefe, Atlanta News First)



“He just approached me, and he asked me for my ID,” film director Tabari Sturdivant told Atlanta News First. “He didn’t state who he was. He just asked me for ID, and I thought he was a Delta agent. He had airport credentials on, and so I gave it to him immediately.”

Sturdivant, an Atlanta-based film director, was heading to L.A. for a film project when a group of task force officers walked up to him and requested to search his carry-on luggage in front of other passengers at his gate.

The officers didn’t find anything illegal, but during the search, they asked if he was high or if he was carrying drugs and cash.

It’s not just the DEA that’s walking around Hartsfield-Jackson in plain clothes. Clayton County narcotics officers are also in on the action because some are reportedly cross-sworn as DEA task force officers.

Hollywood actors and comedians Jean Elie, André, and English were stopped by the agents on a jet bridge of separate ATL to LAX flights and searched their belongings in front of other passengers in 2021 and 2020.

Flights from Atlanta to Los Angeles are routinely monitored by these officers, who call them “known drug trafficking routes.”

The suit was filed by André and English, who not only claimed the searches were “neither random nor consensual,” they also included Clayton County data that revealed 56 percent of jet bridge stops involved Black passengers, and 68 percent were people of color.

The DEA stopped collecting race data 20 years ago. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit last month, arguing in part that the two men should have realized they were free to walk away and not engage with the officers in the jetway. The men are appealing the dismissal.

While the searches may not be popular, they’re certainly profitable.

Clayton County records and federal documents show that drug agents find large amounts of cash on passengers at departing gates rather than drugs. Agents have seized millions of dollars, and while travelers aren’t arrested, their money is often administratively forfeited.

Like most civil forfeiture cases, people who have their money taken must prove in court that their money isn’t connected to drug trafficking or other illegal activity. Seizures like these don’t just happen at the Atlanta airport. They’ve taken place at airports across the country.

Most travelers are unclear of their rights when it comes to airport searches. In order to be admitted entry to the airport’s gated areas, passengers must submit themselves to TSA security screenings. That’s a fact.

However, the random searches by DEA agents at the Atlanta airport give passengers pause, but it should be noted that they’re not mandated. The DEA officially calls its stops and searches at airport gates “cold consent encounters,” and passengers are free to end the encounter and walk away if they’d like.

However, others who have been searched at their boarding gates said they felt “coerced,” “pressured,” or gave consent “under duress.”

One passenger recorded one of these encounters that showed a DEA agent using some coercive tactics.

“You’re either going to sign a consent form saying that you’re allowing us to search [your bags],” the drug agent is heard telling the passenger on the recording, “or I’m going to detain them, run my dog on it, and get a search warrant.”

The passenger immediately agreed to sign the consent form.

No drugs were found, but the agents did discover money, which they seized, Atlanta News First reported. The passenger was allowed to board his flight, and the federal government kept the money. The passenger has since filed a claim with the federal court in Atlanta.


https://news.yahoo.com/didn-t-state-federal-drug-203000407.html


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Re: ‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular ... [Re: viraldrome]
    #28513944 - 10/22/23 10:09 AM (3 months, 4 days ago)

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known drug trafficking routes.



Helicopters fly over us to the Coachella festival.

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“coerced,” “pressured,” or gave consent “under duress.”



I have made it clear at every juncture.

I cooperated.

I did not traffic in any consequential amount of drugs, ever,  nor did I walk around with my life savings, though the specific amount of pocket change has been used as an excuse to escalate.

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Re: ‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular ... [Re: durian_2008] * 1
    #28514005 - 10/22/23 10:57 AM (3 months, 4 days ago)

You are innocent until proven guilty, your money is not.

I've been stopped twice by local sheriff's deputies in what were clearly pretextual traffic stops. One was officially because my license plate had that plastic border thing that the dealer put on. The other was on the interstate, for going 2 miles over the speed limit and "having trouble staying in my lane."

In both cases, I was in the deep south on federally funded highways, headed north, with out-of-state plates. And in vehicles visibly packed with stuff (because I was moving). In addition to their own operations, the DEA also partners with local law enforcement, and shares seized assets with them.

I think the packed vehicle thing is perfect for them, because they can claim that it's to make sure that you didn't just pack the car up with bricks of coke, meth, and skag and then throw a couple moving boxes on top. But really, it allows them to catch people who are moving, and therefore likely to have some cash on them, and browbeat them into turning it over. Or toss the car, find a roach, and use that as a pretext to keep the cash (and maybe the car).

In both cases, I was asked if I had any drugs or large amounts of cash (had to stifle a chuckle when they got to the cash part.) Usual bullshit I'm-just-your-buddy-here interrogation techniques, until they got to the punchline and asked if they could search the car. In one case, I saw the wheels turn in the guy's head as he decided whether to double down and call a k9 unit. In both cases, I think they just ran the clock down too far to pursue that option. 15 minutes is the court-mandated rule of thumb for a reasonable stop, and if they don't have any good PC by then, they usually let it go. The point is to get the assets and get away clean.

But goddamn, 15 minutes at your departure gate would feel like a long-ass time.

This is one of those holdovers from the war or drugs that they'll be loathe to give up. Anyway, the war on cocaine is mostly about money moving the wrong direction.

I'm sure Eric Andre doesn't need to be hauling cash from Atlanta to LA. And anyway, doesn't his cash flow go the other direction for the most part?


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Re: ‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular ... [Re: B Traven]
    #28514465 - 10/22/23 04:49 PM (3 months, 4 days ago)

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from Atlanta to LA. And anyway, doesn't his cash flow go the other direction for the most part?



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Flights from Atlanta to Los Angeles are routinely monitored by these officers, who call them “known drug trafficking routes.”



The port of entry would seem to be LA metro, which is border-adjacent and less landlocked, imho.

So, maybe, hypothetically, drugs are trafficked inland and money offshore.

Money, from Atlanta to LA. :shrug: Just guessing on the spot.


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Re: ‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular ... [Re: durian_2008] * 1
    #28514527 - 10/22/23 06:11 PM (3 months, 4 days ago)

The point was, it's Eric André and he works in Hollywood. Doesn't get paid in cash, and certainly doesn't need to be a cash mule for the cartels. And likely spends more than he makes when visiting Atlanta.

Yes, of course, some drug trade money would go from Atlanta to LA because of the way that the trade routes are set up. But they're also just picking routes from the biggest airport in the southeast to the biggest airport in the southwest.


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Re: ‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular ... [Re: B Traven]
    #28516696 - 10/24/23 03:10 PM (3 months, 2 days ago)

I am incognito, not carrying, and I might have chosen indie landing strips, just to avoid garden variety gape rape.

Celebrities transporting drugs from hub to hub does not seem to involve any intelligent strategy. Why did it seem to make sense to these people at the time. :coffee:


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    #28517282 - 10/25/23 12:42 AM (3 months, 1 day ago)

I don't think they care. If they find cash, then they can seize it, and the burden of proof that it's legitimate falls on the person they take it from.

I actually believe that their profiling is probably pretty effective, and based in reality. Just not a reality based in good-faith efforts to locate drug traffickers. What it's really based on is people who are more likely to be carrying large amounts of cash, and less likely to complain effectively when the government takes it.


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