LAX Gun Smuggler Gets 5-Year Term
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A former employee at Los Angeles International Airport was sentenced this week to five years in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle firearms and explosives onto an airliner, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Lionel Rodriguez, 31, of Diamond Bar was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said Rodriguez worked as a loss prevention agent at an airport shop. Contacted by undercover officers posing as weapons suppliers in October 1999, Rodriguez smuggled 10 guns, seven blocks of plastic explosives and four fake hand grenades past security.
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