The Brief
- Two massive drug busts with roots at airports in Arizona have taken place over the last two weeks.
- A plane filled with cocaine took off from Falcon Field in Mesa and landed on a freeway in California last week and a woman was caught with nearly 50,000 fentanyl pills at Sky Harbor Airport.
- We’re learning more about the security measures at airports to prevent these incidents from happening.
MESA, Ariz. – Narcotics are coming through Arizona airports.
Two recent busts have happened in the last two weeks, with one at Phoenix Sky Harbor and another in California after the plane took off from Falcon Field in Mesa.
General aviation airports, like Falcon Field in Mesa, are not monitored by the Transportation Security Administration. Rather, it’s up to individual pilots to know what is being moved on their plane.…