Thread: Dude gets caught smuggling meth inside of a potato chip bag at LAX

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Compton man was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for trying to smuggle drugs stuffed inside potato chip bags.

Authorities said 21-year-old Lemuel Espinosa crammed nearly five pounds of methamphetamine inside the bags and tried to board a plane to Japan on Wednesday.

Espinosa didn't make it past the X-ray screeners.

According to the case affidavit, Espinosa was planning to sell the drugs to someone in Japan for $6,000. Homeland Security Investigations agents estimate the methamphetamine would have sold on the street in Japan for more than $200,000.

Espinosa was charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

He was being held without bond pending his arraignment, which was scheduled for Oct. 3. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

What an Idiot! Here's your sign!!!!!

Those must have been a heavy ass bag of potato chips.

whered the chips go? hope he didnt waste them..

Things like this really tend to aggravate me, especially when it's someone from our generation.

Our future is placed in the hands of these ****tards.

Yeah, he should have known not to keep it in his carry on, that **** always goes in your checked luggage.

Also, selling 200k in drugs for 6k is a waste!

Did he honestly think they wouldn't be able to tell through the X-ray machines?

Originally Posted by txslow6

Did he honestly think they wouldn't be able to tell through the X-ray machines?

Its a foil bag, Xrays can't read through foil, sounds like it should have worked to me...

Iv e heard he planned to buy a GXP with that monies! Lol

Originally Posted by Explicit_Spade

Its a foil bag, Xrays can't read through foil, sounds like it should have worked to me...

Sounds like they have figured a way around that.

They are plastic bags pretty sure

194K = Lifetime sentence of buttraping?

Funny gai.

Originally Posted by Iceman6669

plastic, alum. IT doesn't matter... For that kinda scratch I would buy a freakin boat to take there....

Yea, why would the guy take the most secure form of transportation, haha

so about those chips...

Originally Posted by Hippo Machine

They are plastic bags pretty sure

that person is the worst drug dealer ever

this guy obviously never watched "locked up abroad" well at least hes in a us jail, and not some crap hole over seas, or what not.

you cant even keister stuff no more, frigging technology.

some time ago, so moron, had a dead baby gutted and stuffed with coke, they caught them because the baby never made a sound, and any of us who ever flew, well we know how babys are on a flight.

really... I still stand by the fact that this world needs a mass genocide of all the stupid morons! 1 down...millions to go!!!

sidenote... I was able to bring some goodies to vegas in '04 when I went, but I put them into a tube of toothpaste, on my checked luggage ..... jus' sayin....