When you're packing for the long flight from Los Angeles to NYC, remember the essentials: a neck pillow; the latest edition of SkyMall; and a nice, 69 lb. stash of cocaine.
Police are looking for a flight attendant who fled LAX on foot last Friday just as she was about to be searched by the TSA ahead of her flight to NYC. NBC reports that what was supposed to be a random screening (flight attendants are normally not subjected to searches) took a panicked turn when the woman abandoned her luggage, her Gucci designer shoes, and ran (other would-be smugglers haven't been quite so capable of just dropping their stash and making tracks, though).
A subsequent search of her carry-on luggage revealed nearly 70 lbs of cocaine stashed in green bags, according to the Washington Post. The woman—who is still at large—faces felony drug charges.
"With her bringing this amount of narcotics in the airport, chances are this wasn't her first time through," said McClain, head of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, told the AP. "We're hoping this is a wake-up call to airport management as well as federal legislators."
