Delta Baggage Handler Arrested In Alleged Gun Smuggling Plot

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A Delta baggage handler is busted for special cargo that he’s accused of smuggling on flights.

FOX News Radio’s Jared Halpern has more from Washington. ?

The baggage handler is accused of helping smuggle weapons onto commercial flights to New York City. Eugene Harvey now charged with trafficking firearms and violating airport security.

A former Delta employee, fired in 2010, has also been arrested in the scheme after an undercover agent bought a gun.

Federal authorities say the two men smuggled guns onto airplanes several times, and between May and December, supplied more than 100 hand guns and assault rifles to a co-conspirator, who in turn made that sale to the undercover agent.

In Washington, Jared Halpern, FOX News Radio.?