CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Information about a high risk passenger at Charlotte Douglas International Airport led to agents arresting a man on drug trafficking charges last week, according to a federal affidavit.
Homeland Security agents had information a high risk female passenger was flying into Charlotte on Nov. 12. Investigators said she bought a one-way ticket, documents read.
Once the woman landed, agents followed her to conduct a consensual interview.
They watched her retrieve her luggage, exit the airport and walk to a car that Sean Robinson was driving.
Investigators approached Robinson and asked him to get out of the vehicle, but he stalled and then fumbled around the floor of the car.
When agents pulled him out of the vehicle, a gun dropped onto the pavement. Agents determined there were 15 pounds of marijuana in the luggage.
Robinson confessed to being involved in 25 trips, and agents estimate it involved more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, according to the affidavit.
Robinson claimed the luggage and gun belonged to him.
The woman mentioned in the affidavit is not named. Eyewitness News contacted Homeland Security officials Monday to ask about her status but did not hear back.
The event was hardly the first time people were arrested for drug smuggling at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
In June, federal prosecutors charged eight people with making 47 trips between Charlotte and San Francisco. In many of those instances, the drugs were hidden in checked bags.
That scheme allegedly involved 880 pounds of marijuana.
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