Flight Attendants Accused of Smuggling Drug Money

The four, all of whom are from the New York metro area, allegedly carried cash to the Dominican Republic for fentanyl shipments into the United States.

An officer from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Trade and Cargo Division finds Oxycodone pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport's U.S. Postal Service facility in New York on June 24, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Four flight attendants used their airport security clearance to smuggle drug money to the Dominican Republic for an international organization that traffics fentanyl into the United States, according to a recently unsealed Homeland Security investigation.

The flight attendants, who are from New York and northern New Jersey, were arrested on May 7 following a four-year investigation by federal agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division.