News and notes from around the interweb:
- The jetBlue flight attendant who ditched 60 pounds of cocaine at LAX has been sentenced to time served
- Internet of Things for aviation gets real
- Review of the new documentary about my award booking partner Steve Belkin also known as beaubo.
- A full throated defense of Southwest’s changing the value of its points.
- Etihad has seen a lot of cutbacks in their premium cabin soft product, so I guess it’s not surprising that they’re touting as a good thing new meals in collaboration with the UAE Department of Health
- Sabre’s attempt to explain blockchain
- Up to 50,000 AAdvantage miles for buying or selling a home through a real estate agent that’s picked for you you’re getting some of the commission rebated to you in miles.
- Another passenger dragged off a plane, a year after David Dao. This time not quite as violently.. and over mosquitos. (HT: Jessica Puckett)
They held me by the collar and dragged me through the aisle, I heard crew saying 'if you have a problem with mosquitoes then why don't you leave India?': Dr.Saurabh Rai, Passenger who was offloaded from IndiGo flight in Lucknow after alleged altercation over mosquitoes in flight pic.twitter.com/oAQO6cTTAH
— ANI (@ANI) April 10, 2018
How could a judge justify releasing that cocaine-smuggling piece of trash?
Does that “angel” get to keep her jetBlue job?
I believe she rolled over on her supplier.
To answer your question; in my opinion, Federal Judge Snyder was correct in handing down the three year (time served) sentence, with a three year supervised probation tail. Marsha Reynolds was instrumental in providing critical testimony in court against a major Jamaican drug supplier, (Gaston Brown), who was convicted in February 2018, of his much higher and more important role in supplying the USA with cocaine. Having been previously qualified as an expert in international drug smuggling, including a case involving numerous kilos of cocaine from Jamaica in a suitcase by an airline passenger; I would agree that 30 kilos (66 pounds), is lot of cocaine, (worth an estimated wholesale value of $960,000.00 dollars, on the East Coast). In contrast however, it was “small”, compared to the amounts trafficked by Gaston Brown. I absolutely do NOT condone the criminal actions of a “knowing mule”, but the goal of supply reduction can only be accomplished by bringing down the entire organization.