American Airlines Mechanic Convicted of Smuggling $320K of Cocaine Onto Commercial Flight

Paul Belloisi, an American Airlines mechanic, was found guilty of hiding 10 bricks of cocaine worth $320,000 in a compartment under the cockpit of an airplane arriving from Jamaica.
Belloisi was caught in a sting operation when undercover agents replaced the real cocaine with fake bricks and placed the plane under surveillance.
Belloisi faces up to 20 years in prison for using his position as an airline employee to facilitate the smuggling of illegal drugs.
The cocaine was hidden in a compartment that is only accessible to authorized personnel like mechanics and pilots.
Belloisi was described as being caught "red-handed" in the act of retrieving the cocaine bricks from the plane.