{"id":742330,"date":"2026-07-04T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742330\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:01:14","slug":"flying-high-police-say-passenger-pulled-off-airplane-at-pdx-after-pot-found-in-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742330\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying high: Police say passenger pulled off airplane at PDX after pot found in luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A New York man was unable to complete his flight back East after authorities found a large amount of marijuana inside his checked luggage at Portland International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/illegal-tire-dumping-multnomah-county-portland-metro-costly-property-owners-oregon-deq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Illegal tire dumping surges across Portland, leaving property owners with costly cleanup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Port of Portland police responded to PDX on Tuesday, June 30, after TSA screeners discovered marijuana in a checked suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the suitcase contained a large vacuum-sealed bag with several smaller black plastic bags weighing nearly 30 pounds and containing marijuana buds.<\/p>\n<p>The suitcase was labeled &#8220;Primus\/Zachar&#8221; and was destined for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Alaska Airlines Flight AS18.<\/p>\n<p>Officers determined the suspect, later identified as Zachariah Hillary Primus, 38, of Carmel, New York, had already boarded the flight, but the plane was still on the runway.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Airlines agents paged Primus back to the terminal, where he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, surveillance video showed Primus arriving at the airport and checking the suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>Primus was arraigned Thursday, July 2, on three felony charges: illegal import or export of marijuana, unlawful delivery of a marijuana item and unlawful possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Primus was in possession of more than 256 ounces of usable marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on his own recognizance pending his next court hearing on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A New York man was unable to complete his flight back East after authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-742330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}