Flying high

No that's not the kind of snow at Dallas Fort Worth Airport being written about by Robert Wilonsky in the Dallas Morning News this morning.

Forty-six people, most from Dallas and Fort Worth, were arrested this morning in connection with a drug-distribution and money-laundering ring involving deliveries made by at least one person who works at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

...According to the feds, most of those named in the document are charged with at least one count of conspiring to distribute meth, heroin or cocaine. And: “Eight defendants are charged with at least one count of money laundering or conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

The indictment alleges that four of the 46 — 33-year-old Funaki “Noc” Falahola, 51-year-old Moniteveti “Vince” Katoa, 33-year-old Molitoni “Tony” Katoa and 40-year-old Janelle Isaacs — worked at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport or knew someone at the airport who could “bypass security” to make cocaine deliveries from here to “throughout the United States.” The indictment also accuses them of acting as “look outs … to bypass security measures” at the airport.

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