Airport Workers Nabbed For DR Coke

September 8, 2010

CaribWorldNews, NEWARK, N.J., Weds. Sept. 8, 2010: Two airport workers at the Newark Liberty International Airport have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to smuggle cocaine from the Dominican Republic into the United States.

Federal authorities accused 25-year-old Yunior Lopez of Elizabeth, 29-year-old Amaurys Caminero of Linden and 27-year-old Kerlwin Taveras of the Bronx, N.Y., with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

Lopez and Caminero are baggage handlers for Houston-based Continental Airlines, where Taveras formerly held the same job. Prosecutors say the cocaine arrived aboard flights from the Dominican Republic.