{"id":281141,"date":"2026-04-23T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:31:09","slug":"2-workers-at-lax-arrested-for-smuggling-drugs-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281141\/","title":{"rendered":"2 workers at LAX arrested for smuggling drugs \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people who work out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were arrested for smuggling drugs, federal investigators told NBC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division confirmed to NBC Investigations that the two employees are contract workers at the airport. They were arrested by the DEA&#8217;s LAX Task Force team. <\/p>\n<p>The identities of the suspects, including details on how their alleged crime was committed, were not immediately available. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation continued Wednesday while the DEA declined to provide additional information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people who work out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were arrested for smuggling drugs, federal investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,1474,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-281141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-lax","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}