BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Three people were arrested on Monday at the Buffalo Niagara Airport after they allegedly smuggled over 200 pounds of marijuana across state lines, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) announced.
Alberto Capo Medina, 43, Rene Cintron, III, 46, and Jose Alberto Echevarria, 46, all of the U.S., flew on United Airlines from San Francisco to Washington and then landed at the Buffalo Niagara Airport.
An NFTA K9 did an open-air sniff of the luggage and alerted to nine suitcases belonging to Medina, Echevarria and Cintron, which contained 238 vacuum sealed bags of 238 pounds of marijuana, NFTA police said.
The bags were loaded onto the carousel, where the three reportedly took the luggage and tried to flee.
Medina, Echevarria and Cintron were taken into custody and charged with first-degree criminal possession of cannabis.
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