Flight attendants arrested for allegedly smuggling money through JFK Airport in New York

NEW YORK -- Four formation attendants are accused of smuggling $8 cardinal worthy of cause wealth past the TSA onto flights and retired of the country.

Federal prosecutors accidental the 4 New York-based formation attendants utilized their lofty positions to tally millions successful cause wealth to the Dominican Republic arsenic they worked their flights.

"This probe has exposed captious vulnerabilities successful the hose information manufacture and has illuminated methods that narcotics traffickers are utilizing," said a national official.

The national indictment alleges the formation unit members, astatine slightest 2 of whom enactment for Delta Airlines, smuggled a full of $8 cardinal done alleged "known crewmember information lanes" astatine JFK Airport, which allowed them to bypass TSA security.

The ailment calls it "an planetary narcotics trafficking, and wealth laundering cognition progressive successful trafficking fentanyl by utilizing formation attendants astatine large airlines to smuggle bulk quantities of cash."

Investigators accidental a subordinate of the ringing recruited the formation attendants and then, erstwhile busted, rolled implicit connected them, yet ensnaring them successful a sting portion the feds were watching.

Delta connected Wednesday said it had suspended 2 employees pending an interior review.

The hose says it "has cooperated afloat with instrumentality enforcement successful this probe and volition proceed to bash so."

Delta is 1 of 3 airlines that alert from New York to the Dominican Republic, but it isn't wide wherever the different 2 suspects work.

All of them are charged with felonies and could look up to a decennary successful national prison.