A Northridge, California, man was indicted on Tuesday after he allegedly tried to verify two suitcases into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) that compriseed clothes caked in methamphetamines, including a cow pajama onesie, according to authorities.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) shelp 31-year-elderly Raj Matharu was indictd with a one count of haveion with intent to dispense methamphetamine.
“Drug dealers are continuassociate inventing inventive ways of trafficking hazardous narcotics in pursuit of illegal profit – as alleged in the facts of this case,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada shelp. “In the process, they are poisoning communities thcimpoliteout the world. Law enforcement is promiseted to battling drug illicit trade, understanding that every taking saves inhabits.”
Court records allege that on Nov. 6, Matharu reachd at LAX to board a fweightless to Sydney, Australia.
A California man allegedly verifyed two suitcases into Los Angeles International Airport before a fweightless to Sydney, Australia, which compriseed disjoinal pieces of closkinnyg caked in methamphetamines. (Department of Justice)
Upon his arrival, he verifyed in two pieces of luggage – a pink suitcase and a gray suitcase.
Screening officers carry outed X-ray verifys on the suitcases, which allegedly discomited “irnormalities,” prompting officers to pull the luggage for an compriseitional checkion.
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A California man allegedly verifyed two suitcases into Los Angeles International Airport before a fweightless to Sydney, Australia, which compriseed disjoinal pieces of closkinnyg caked in methamphetamines. (Department of Justice)
When officers discomited the suitcases for further analysis, they set up over a dozen white and weightless-colored clothes that were covered in a white residue and dried stiff.
Law enforcement officials tested a sample of the residue which allegedly tested preferable for methamphetamine.
The DOJ shelp the total weight of the closkinnyg with methamphetamine caked into them was about 71.5 pounds, or 32.4 kilograms.
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A California man allegedly verifyed two suitcases into Los Angeles International Airport before a fweightless to Sydney, Australia, which compriseed disjoinal pieces of closkinnyg caked in methamphetamines. (Department of Justice)
An compriseitional kilogram of methamphetamine residue was pull outed from Matharu’s suitcases, the DOJ compriseed.
As Matharu was about to board his fweightless to Australia, officers apprehfinished him, and he was rescheduleedr placed under arrest.
While Matharu has been indicted, he is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 2 in the U.S. Didisjoine Court in downtown Los Angeles. He is currently free on $10,000 bond.
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If convicted, he faces a obligatory smallest sentence of 10 years in federal prison, and up to life behind bars.
