LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Some 80 million people fly through Los Angeles International Airport every year.
And another 50,000 work there every day.
That all adds up to an enormous and complicated ecosystem.
And amid all this energy is a massive problem that has been building for years – and nobody is talking about.
Well, nobody except a sheriff some 2,000 miles away.
‘Drugs pouring out of LAX’
Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Fla., says a large quantity of the drugs that end up in his jurisdiction first entered the country through LAX.
“Over and over on these domestic airlines from LAX, through suitcases drugs were smuggled here,” Judd said, as he displayed luggage packed with narcotics at a press conference announcing a drug bust.
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