“He just approached me, and he asked me for my ID,” film director Tabari Sturdivant said. “He didn’t state who he was. He just asked me for ID, and I thought he was a Delta agent. He had airport credentials on, and so I gave it to him immediately.”
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Both local police records and federal court documents show drug agents working at the busiest airport in the world rarely find drugs on passengers at departing gates.
More often, they find money.
Records show agents have seized millions of dollars from passengers at boarding gates at Atlanta’s airport alone. The money is administratively forfeited as the proceeds of drug trafficking even when no drugs are found.
Agents generally do not arrest the passenger. They arrest their money.
Now, the rest of the story:
In Plane Sight: Drug agents searching passengers for cash at airport gates (nbc12.com)
