{"id":86721,"date":"2020-10-11T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/man-sues-airline-after-finding-cocaine-planted-in-his-suitcase\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T01:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:47:43","slug":"man-sues-airline-after-finding-cocaine-planted-in-his-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/man-sues-airline-after-finding-cocaine-planted-in-his-suitcase\/","title":{"rendered":"#Man sues airline after finding cocaine planted in his suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Man sues airline after finding cocaine planted in his suitcase<\/strong>”
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\n Vacation became a nightmare for a Queens man who claims he was unwittingly turned into a drug mule.<\/p>\n

Simeon Wilson, 50, had just spent a week in his native Guyana celebrating his elderly dad\u2019s birthday when he picked up his bag from the luggage carousel at JFK Airport. Exhausted from the overnight flight, he didn\u2019t notice that someone had secured a necktie around the handle, according to a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

There was no necktie on the suitcase when Wilson, a married dad and janitor, checked it in with Caribbean Airlines at Guyana\u2019s Cheddi Jagan Airport for the October 2018 trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was pulled aside by US Customs agents and arrested after 2,000 grams of cocaine in two bags were found inside.<\/p>\n

Wilson \u201chad never touched, handled, sold or even seen drugs in his life,\u201d and didn\u2019t put them in his own suitcase, court papers claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go out for a vacation you don\u2019t expect anybody to go and tamper with your bag,\u201d he told The Post.<\/p>\n

About 10 weeks later, prosecutors dropped the charges after determining Wilson\u2019s bag had been tampered with \u201cwhile in the sole custody of Caribbean Airlines,\u201d he said in the legal filing.<\/p>\n

But by then his family had to bail him out of jail, his reputation in the Queens Guyanese community had been ruined, and he lost his job, he says in the Brooklyn Federal Court suit accusing the airline of negligence.<\/p>\n

To this day Wilson is frequently pulled aside by Customs at airports because his name is flagged. He has to carry proof that his case was dropped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI travel with my two hands. I don\u2019t bring no suitcase at all. Nobody can screw with me anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Mr. Wilson went through was a terrible ordeal and he should be compensated for the airline\u2019s negligence,\u201d said his lawyer, Amy Robinson.<\/p>\n

Robinson noted the 2012 case of Roger Levans, who sued Delta Airlines after someone alleged inserted drugs into his bag after he handed it to the airline. \u201cIt is particularly outrageous since his has happ<\/a>ened to other passengers before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Wilson seeks unspecified damages. Caribbean Airlines declined comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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