A woman is suing American Airlines after she alleges she was framed for trying to smuggle opiates into the U.S. by an airline employee who checked a bag full of drugs in her name

workers at the Lynden Pindling Airport in Nassau, Bahamas, are checking bags under the names of passengers to the U.S., then having conspirators pick up that narcotics-containing luggage at baggage claim in the U.S

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.697760/gov.uscourts.flsd.697760.1.0.pdf

In April, Dominguez was arrested for allegedly trying to traffic more than 100 bottles of codeine in a bag, only for her to later be cleared of wrongdoing when it could be proven she never checked a bag at all, and this bag was checked in before she ever arrived at the airport. 

 “ALISON DOMINGUEZ and the relevant law enforcement agencies would later learn that an AMERICAN AIRLINES employee falsely checked the bag in ALISON DOMINGUEZ’s name as part of a drug importation scheme designed to take advantage of the U.S. Customs pre-clearance system

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/airline-workers-smuggled-drugs-in-bag-falsely-tied-to-passenger-lawsuit/