Michael Williams of Hawthorne, was arrested in 2020 after authorities conducted undercover operations, monitoring him, as it was suspected he was smuggling narcotics past security checkpoints.
A former Transportation Security Administration officer was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for smuggling what he believed was methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for $8,000.
Williams was arrested in 2020 after authorities conducted undercover operations, monitoring him, as it was suspected he was smuggling narcotics past security checkpoints. As a TSA employee with unscreened access to LAX, Williams twice agreed to deliver what he thought was methamphetamine in a backpack to the drug source's accomplice in a men's restroom on the secure side of the airport terminal, federal prosecutors said.
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