Delta & TSA Employees Admit Drug Smuggling

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Delta & TSA Employees Admit Drug Smuggling
06-26-2008
WSBTV







ATLANTA -- Two former TSA employees and a former Delta worker admitted Wednesday to smuggling drugs at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

Leslie Adgar, 42, of Decatur, Andre Mays, 24, of Atlanta, and Jon Patton, 44, of Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine and heroin.

Patton and Mays were Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security guards working at Hartsfield-Jackson. Adgar worked for Delta Air Lines.

Federal prosecutors said the trio was arrested after helping an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency officer ship drugs from Atlanta to New York. Patton and Mays admitted taking three bags packed with drugs from the undercover officer while they were wearing their TSA security guard uniforms; then carrying them around TSA security checkpoints at the airport.

Adgar admitted taking the drugs on Delta flights to New York.

Adgar and Patton pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin. They face a minimum penalty of ten years in prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Mays pleaded guilty to entering a secure airport area in violation of federal screening requirements, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison.

They will be sentenced in September.