Pot Skies Baggage Handler takes guilty plea

Southwest Airlines was riding high

According to the feds, " Former Southwest Airlines baggage handler Michael Herb Videau pleaded guilty in federal court today to entering an airport area in violation of security requirements and distribution of marijuana, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf. 

In pleading guilty, Videau, 29, of Oakland, admitted that he conspired with other former Southwest Airlines baggage handlers to violate airport security requirements for the purpose of narcotics trafficking.  Videau specifically admitted that on eight occasions in 2013 he used his access to the Oakland International Airport as a baggage handler for Southwest Airlines to smuggle luggage containing kilograms of marijuana around the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint to outbound passengers who had already cleared the TSA security checkpoint.  These passengers then flew to their destinations with unscreened luggage containing marijuana that was then sold in destination cities throughout the United States.  Videau also admitted that, as a baggage handler for Southwest Airlines, he abused a position of public and private trust in a manner that significantly facilitated the commission and concealment of his crimes. 

Videau was indicted along with 12 co-defendants by a federal grand jury on May 28, 2015.  He was charged with one count of conspiracy to enter an airport area in violation of security requirements and to defraud the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; one count of conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846; one count of distribution, and possession with intent to distribute, marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); and one count of entering an airport area in violation of security requirements, in violation of 49 U.S.C. §§ 46314(a), 46314(b)(2).  Under his plea agreement, Videau pleaded guilty to one count of entering an airport."

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